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Dear Colleague,
Welcome to NCC News. This online newsletter was created to keep you up-to-date on all things chlamydia, and related areas of interest. We hope you will find it useful and informative. Please feel free to share this with your colleagues who may also find it of use.
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GYT NOW!
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 April is National STD Awareness Month and we're hoping that the GYT campaign will be even more successful than last year. As you may know, GYT (Get Youreself Tested. Get Yourself Talking.), a collaborative effort among MTV, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the CDC, first launched last April to educate young people about STDs and encourage testing.
GYT messages are communicated to young people in a variety of ways--on-air on MTV channels, online, and on mobile phones- users can text their zip code to GYTNOW (498669) to find a nearby STD testing center. The campaign is also being promoted in health centers and clinics, in communities, and on college campuses across the country.
This year, clinics are encouraged to continue to improve STD testing rates using the GYT promotional materials found in the online toolkit. |
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Organizations Funded to Improve Chlamydia Screening
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Partnership for Prevention has awarded ten grants (one is still in process) to regional, state and local organizations to implement innovative strategies to increase chlamydia screening and follow-up care. The grants are also designed to encourage collaboration among local National Chlamydia Coalition counterparts. Partnership received a large number of creative and well-written grant proposals, and while we could only fund ten applicants this year, we greatly appreciate all the organizations who took the time to apply. Below is a list of grantees. For more information on the funded projects, please click here.
- Adagio Health, Inc.
- Center for Health Training
- Children's Memorial Hospital, Uplift School Based Health Center
- Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
- Jackson County, IL Health Department
- Michigan Department of Community Health
- Minnesota Department of Health
- Old Dominion University Research Foundation
- Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho
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Declining Adjusted Chlamydia Prevalence among Women and Men Entering the National Job Training Program
In a new study published in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, researchers from the Division of STD Prevention at the CDC found that adjusted chlamydia prevalence declined from 2003 to 2007 among young men and women aged 16 to 24 years entering the National Job Training Program. These 15,000 women and 30,000 men represent a relatively stable, high-risk population.
Athough crude prevalence in women was 13.7% in 2007, as compared to 9.9% in 2003, controlling for co-variates, including increasingly sensitive tests, indicated a declining trend. Significant declines were also detected for men, whose crude chlamydia rates were 8.3% in 2007, compared to 8.4% in 2003. Researchers point out that test technology plays a critical role in interpreting rates and should be considered whenever chlamydia rates are examined.
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Resource Corner
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New Studies on Adolescent Health Behavior Now Available
National Center for Health Statistics Releases Annual Report
 " Health, United States, 2009," the federal government's 33rd annual report to the President and Congress on the health of all Americans was released on February 17 and highlights the growing use of medical technology. The full report covers the gamut of health topics--from life expectancy to sleep patterns to smoking.
Programs for Older Youth: What Works
A new Child Trends fact sheet, What Works for Older Youth During the Transition to Adulthood, examines the role that programs for older youth can play in promoting positive development and subsequent self-sufficiency in adulthood. It synthesizes the findings from 31 rigorous evaluations of programs. All of the programs evaluated youth outcomes during the transition to adulthood (ages 18 to 25), but programs varied in the ages of targeted youth. | |
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