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Find the NCC on Facebook!
The National Chlamydia Coalition is now on Facebook. To follow the NCC, simply visit our page and click the "like" button. Don't forget to share it with your friends and colleagues! | | |
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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 also may find it of use. |
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Chlamydia Screening HEDIS Data Available
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Visit the NCC website for updated state by state data showing the percentage of sexually active female health plan enrollees screened for chlamydia for the years 2000-2010. CDC worked with NCQA to make these data available.
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NCC Strategic Plan Now Avialable
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The updated National Chlamydia Coalition (NCC) Strategic Plan is now available. The strategic plan features a revised mission statement, as well as our four priority goals:
- Promote chlamydia prevention by educating providers on the importan
 ce of screening, timely treatment, partner services, and re-screening as recommended in current guidelines - Educate the public on preventing chlamydia, screening and treating chlamydia, and preventing re-infection
- Translate and disseminate research findings to enhance the prevention of chlamydia and its medical and social consequences
- Develop and promote policies that ensure access to chlamydia screening and treatment for all populations, especially adolescents and young adults.
The plan covers how we intend to reach these goals over the next 1-2 years. Thank you to all the NCC members who have contributed to the development of the plan.
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| Opportunity to Comment: Chlamydia Identification and Follow-Up Measure Suite
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There is an opportunity to comment on a quality measure for assessing the content of well care for adolescents: Chlamydia  Identification and Follow-Up Measure Suite. It includes three parts: 1) Sexual Activity Documentation for Adolescents; 2) Chlamydia Screening with Results for Female Adolescents; and 3) Chlamydia Treatment for Female Adolescents with Positive Result. We encourage your organization to support this measure. Comments are due May 29, 2012. |
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More Teen Girls Using Contraceptives
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In a study published in the May 4th MMWR, CDC resear chers used data from the National Survey of Family Growth and found that 60% of teen girls who have sex use the most effective kinds of contraception. Contraceptives included intrauterine devices, implants, pills, patches, rings or injectable contraceptives. This represents a 47% increase in contraceptive use since 1995. An increase in contraceptive use may help to explain the decline in the U.S.teen birth rate, which has dropped 44% since 1990. However, the researchers also found that contraceptive use varied by race and ethnic group. More white teens (66%) than black (46%) or Hispanic teens (54%) used contraceptives.
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| PACHA Resolution in Support of Comprehensive Sex Ed
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The President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS recently passed a resolution in favor of comprehensive sexuality education. The resolution expresses strong support for current initiatives, including those of CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH), and support for expanding federal programs and funding for comprehensive sex education and HIV prevention for youth. The resolution also calls for the elimination of federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, as well as for no federal funding to be used for programs that withhold information, are medically inaccurate or have been shown to be ineffective, promote gender stereotypes, or ignore or stigmatize LGBT young people. In addition, the resolution requests that HHS review their list of evidence-based programs with these content standards in mind.
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NCC Research Translation Committee: Expert Commentary
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The fourth installment of NCC Research Translation Committee's Expert Commentary includes an overview of the 2012 National STD Prevention Conference, which took place from March 12-15th in Minneapolis, MN. In-depth synopses of 5 popular sessions are included: "Healthcare Changes and STDs: When the Money Goes, Will the Services Stay?"; "Preparing for the Threat of Multidrug Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae"; "Physician, Heal Thy Patient's Partner: Partner Services and STD Prevention"; "Self-reported chlamydia testing of women aged 15-25 years in the United States, 2006-2008"; and "Chlamydia Surveillance: Need for New Approaches."
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| NACCHO Launches New Online Resource
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The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) recently launched a new online STD Program Adaptation and Partner Engagement Resource Kit. The Resource Kit is informed by five local health department (LHD) STD programs that have collaborated with community partners to adapt their programs to meet local STD prevention and control needs. LHDs can use the Resource Kit to help guide and expand their own STD program activities. The Kit provides tools, resources, and lessons learned in the development and implementation of each program, all of which can be modified to fit the needs of users.
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| May is Hepatitis Awareness Month
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