Ending Hepatitis is Something We Can All Do Every Day
5-3-2022May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and National Hepatitis Testing Day is May 19. Both observances, as the CDC states, “serve as a time to raise awareness of hep…
Federal STI Action Plan
Signs of a Sea Change? Syphilis Increases May Be Reversing among Gay & Bisexual Men
4-13-2022Syphilis continues to disproportionately affect gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM), but a decades-long increase in reported cases may be re…
January is Cervical Cancer Prevention Month
1-24-2022January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. For women with HIV, the observance is an important reminder of their greater risk of cervical cancer and the importa…
HRSA Updates the Affordable Care Act Preventive Health Care Guidelines to Improve Care for Women and Children
1-12-2022Note: The updated ACA preventive health care guidelines for women include updates related to HIV screening and STI counseling. The resulting coverage without co…
HHS Minority HIV/AIDS Fund Supports STD Specialty Clinics to Scale Up HIV Services
8-18-2021Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) is a whole-of-society effort that requires providing services to people with and at risk for HIV wherever they seek ca…
Message from CDC’s New Director of the Division of STD Prevention, Dr. Leandro Mena
8-2-2021Cross-posted from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of STD PreventionDear Colleagues,I am thrilled to start my journey with the Centers fo…
It’s Time to End the Global Burden of Viral Hepatitis
7-27-2021In the United States, we have an amazing opportunity to eliminate viral hepatitis -- a group of infectious diseases that cause short and long-term liver disease…
CDC Releases Updated STI Treatment Guidelines
7-23-2021Cross-post from Centers for Disease Control and PreventionDear Colleagues,CDC has released Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines, 2021. This docu…
STD Awareness Week Spotlights Opportunities to Leverage Responses to HIV and STDs to Improve Both
4-14-2021STD Awareness Week, observed April 11-17 this year, provides an opportunity to raise awareness about sexually transmitted diseases and how they impact our lives…
Comment on the Draft National STI and Viral Hepatitis Strategic Plans
9-28-2020The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is inviting comments on the draft national strategic plans for sexually transmitted infections and viral he…