The National Coalition of STD Directors recently published webcast recordings of each plenary session from the 2019 STD Engage meeting. The plenaries included: Opening Plenary Innovations in Health Equity: STD Directors Leading the Way What’s…
The National Coalition for Sexual Health (NCSH) recently launched a confidential sexual health quiz to offer an engaging way to educate the public about basic sexual health information. To help local health departments and other…
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and Planned Parenthood Los Angeles have partnered on a new initiative to open 50 health centers in Los Angeles County schools that offer a range of birth control…
The California Wellness Foundation has launched RoyalTea, a toolkit that uses culturally relevant content to educate Black women about relationships, sexual health, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. The toolkit includes scripts to engage in difficult…
Advocates for Youth has announced an opportunity for community-based organizations to receive capacity-building assistance through their Queer & Gender Equity Project (QGEP). The QGEP supports organizations interested in and committed to improving the sexual health…
Focused on the health and well-being of adolescents, a new report by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and Well Being Trust continues a series of Pain in the Nation reports that inform national policy to…
This year, NACCHO has awarded scholarships to 4 disease intervention specialists (DIS) from local health departments to join us in the Washington, DC area and participate in the STD Engage conference in November 2019. STD…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking nominations for membership to the CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and STD Prevention and Treatment (CHACHSPT). The CHACHSPT consists of 18 experts in…
With funding from the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP), NACCHO leads the Express STI Visits Initiative, which is designed to increase the evidence base for express STI clinical visits and support clinics in quality…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched five new tools that enable state and local health departments to easily find data on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) indications, behavior change impact, disease epidemiology, and policy and…