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06-13-2023Cross-posted from: HHS Newsroom [On June 8, 2023], the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the STI Fed...
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HHS Releases First-Ever STI Federal Implementation Plan - Blog
Outcomes from Recent HSV Virtual Listening Sessions 05-25-2023Earlier this year, the HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP) convened two listening sessions with provider... - Blog
Resources for STI Awareness Week: April 9-15, 2023 04-11-2023STI Awareness Week, observed April 9-15 this year, provides an opportunity to raise awareness about sexually transmitted infection... - Blog
Virtual Listening Sessions: Opportunities to Inform Development of New HSV Addendum to the STI National Strategic Plan 03-28-2023Mark your calendars! The HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP) wants to hear from members of the STI commun... - Blog
STI Funding & Resources to Support Syndemic Approaches 02-17-2023Many communities have adopted syndemic approaches to address the intersecting conditions of HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis, substance... - Blog
Ending Hepatitis is Something We Can All Do Every Day 05-03-2022May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and National Hepatitis Testing Day is May 19. Both observances, as the CDC states, serve as a... - Blog
Signs of a Sea Change? Syphilis Increases May Be Reversing among Gay & Bisexual Men 04-13-2022Syphilis continues to disproportionately affect gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM), but a decades-long incre... - Blog
January is Cervical Cancer Prevention Month 01-24-2022January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. For women with HIV, the observance is an important reminder of their greater risk of... - Blog
HRSA Updates the Affordable Care Act Preventive Health Care Guidelines to Improve Care for Women and Children 01-12-2022Note: The updated ACA preventive health care guidelines for women include updates related to HIV screening and STI counseling. Th... - Blog
HHS Minority HIV/AIDS Fund Supports STD Specialty Clinics to Scale Up HIV Services 08-18-2021Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) is a whole-of-society effort that requires providing services to people with and at ris... - Blog
Message from CDC’s New Director of the Division of STD Prevention, Dr. Leandro Mena 08-02-2021Cross-posted from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Division of STD Prevention Dear Colleagues,I am thrilled to start... - Blog
It’s Time to End the Global Burden of Viral Hepatitis 07-27-2021In the United States, we have an amazing opportunity to eliminate viral hepatitis -- a group of infectious diseases that cause sh... - Blog
CDC Releases Updated STI Treatment Guidelines 07-23-2021Cross-post from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dear Colleagues,CDC has released Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatm... - Blog
STD Awareness Week Spotlights Opportunities to Leverage Responses to HIV and STDs to Improve Both 04-14-2021STD Awareness Week, observed April 11-17 this year, provides an opportunity to raise awareness about sexually transmitted diseases and how they impact our live.… - Blog
Comment on the Draft National STI and Viral Hepatitis Strategic Plans 09-28-2020The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is inviting comments on the draft national strategic plans for sexually... - Blog
Tribal Public Health Stakeholders Share Input on National Strategies for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and STIs 06-21-2019American Indian and Alaska Native stakeholders shared input on the next HIV and viral hepatitis strategies and the new STIs plan. - Blog
HHS Launches New Web Page for the STI Federal Action Plan, HHS.GOV/STI 06-20-2019HHS announces the launch of the nation’s first-ever federal action plan to address the dramatic rise of sexually transmitted infections in the U.S. - Blog
Quick Take on the U.S. STI Crisis Released by Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute 05-29-2019Check out a snapshot of the dramatic rise of STIs in the U.S. and the disproportionate burden of STIs by geography and for different populations. - Blog
Seeking your Input: Participate in Developing the First-ever STI Federal Action Plan 05-09-2019HHS wants the public to take an active role in helping to develop an inaugural federal action plan for the prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment of STIs.