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| Prevention with Positives Webinar | | |
 Prevention with Positives: Clinical and Behavioral Applications Webinar
The Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Bureau (CDCPB) has regularly scheduled presentations from four of the sections within the bureau. The presentations will be conducted via WebEx, recorded and archived on SharePoint on the program pages.
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 9 am - 10:30 am
Bureau Section: STD/HIV Prevention
Topic: "Prevention with Positives: Clinical and Behavioral Applications"
Description: This presentation will help you learn strategies for addressing prevalent misconceptions about HIV transmission risk, the most up-to-date knowledge of how viral load, strategic positioning, and post-exposure chemoprophylaxis can affect transmission risk, information your patients need to help them keep their partners safe, relevant prevention messages that can be delivered to all of your HIV-positive patients.
Speaker / Leader: Denver Prevention Training Center Team
For more information and to register see the attached fliers from DPHHS and Denver Prevention Training Center. |
| 1st PREP Federal Evaluation | | | The Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP): Launching a Nationwide Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Effort
The report - The Personal Responsibility Education Program: Launching a Nationwide Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Effort - is available here. The purpose of the report is to document key decisions made by state grantees about the design of their PREP programs. Data was collected through telephone interviews with state grantee officials in 44 states and the District of Columbia.
Below are a few key findings from the report:
- Most youth will participate in evidence-based programs. Over 93 percent of the 300,000 expected PREP program participants will be served by programs that are among the 31 that HHS has identified as evidence-based, through a systematic review of teen pregnancy prevention effectiveness evaluations.
- States' program providers are targeting high-risk youth populations. Three-fourths of program providers will operate in high-need geographic areas, and states report that their program providers expect to serve primarily African American and Hispanic youth, youth in foster care, and adjudicated youth.
- States are taking various approaches to educate youth on both abstinence and contraception and incorporate adulthood preparation subjects. About half of the states actively assessed their selected program models for coverage of abstinence and contraception, and about half selected their adulthood preparation subjects and assessed program coverage of these subjects. Otherwise, states gave their providers discretion to ensure that these expectations are met.
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State PREP grantees are uniformly creating an infrastructure to support successful replications of evidence-based programs through training, TA, and monitoring. State grantee staff are taking a key role in organizing and implementing these efforts, and are partnering with developers, program purveyors, and other organizations to provide such support.
The full report contains many more interesting findings related to the work that you do. We hope that you will read through the report to learn more about how other states designed their PREP programs. Please feel free to contact the team at Mathematica Policy Research at PREPEvaluation@mathematica-mpr.com with any questions related to the evaluation or the report.
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| AMCHP and Merck team up to improve maternal health | |  The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs and Merck for Mothers Team Up to Help Reduce the Number of Women Who Die in Pregnancy and Childbirth Washington, DC, November 19, 2013 The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) today announced their program focused on improving maternal health outcomes for women incollaboration with Merck for Mothers, the Merck initiative to create a world where no woman dies giving life.
In the United States, pregnancy-associated mortality is a relatively rare but troubling event. However, since 1990 the U.S. maternal mortality rate has nearly doubled despite improvements in maternal mortality rates globally. Further, significant disparities in maternal deaths persist here in the U.S., with black women dying from pregnancy related causes at three times the rate of white women. In addition to the tragic increase in deaths and significant disparities, the CDC estimates that roughly 50,000 women nearly die from complications of pregnancy or childbirth.
Currently, the United States lacks acomplete understanding of its maternal mortality rate, the drivers of increase and disparities because of limitations in the data systems used to track and analyze maternal death.
"Since its inception, the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant has been the foundation and locus of accountability for ensuring the health of our nation's mothers and children. Merck for Mothers new partnership with AMCHP strengthens state maternal mortality reviews so we better understand the root causes of maternal death and illness and helps Title V MCH programs translate information from reviews into actions - programs and policies - that will prevent future maternal deaths and improve women's health," said Millie Jones, MPH, president of AMCHP.
AMCHP is currently workingwith health leaders who support Maternal Mortality Reviews in Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, New York, North Carolina, and Ohio to prevent maternal death and improve maternal health outcomes.
"We are proud to work with AMCHP to address critical gaps in maternal health care to help ensure women have safe and healthy pregnancies and childbirths," said Naveen Rao, MD, lead, Merck for Mothers. "In the rest of the world, rates of maternal mortality are decreasing, but unfortunately, here in the United States rates are on the rise."
To learn more visit www.amchp.org or merckformothers.com |
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