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Montana Family Planning Training
National Campaign Highlights
Plan First Public Meetings
WIC and MCH Programs and HIV
Live Long and Strong Webinar
STD Webinar
National Public Health Week
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
FDA Decision on Restrictions of EC
Teens Likely to Request Early IUD Removal
Life is Short - Smile!
Calendar of Events
3/10- Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day
3/18- I&E Committee Call
3/20- MPFA Conference call
3/28- National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
4/1-4/7- Public Health Awareness Week
4/21-22- Reducing the Risk Training
4/23-24- Montana Family Planning Training
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March 5, 2014

Quote of the Week 

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
~ Harold B. Melchart
Montana Family Planning Training

April 23-24, 2014 ~

Holiday Inn Downtown ~ Helena, Montana

Registration is NOW open! Click here to Register.

The Montana Family Planning Training will be held in Helena, MT on April 23-24 at the Holiday Inn Dowtown.  There is an optional skills building session prior to the conference, clinicians only, that will include Nexplanon training and Vulvar Dermatological review.

 

For more information on Keynote Speakers go to the Montana Family Planning Training Website and check out the agenda.

National Campaign Highlights

National Campaign 

Under Pressure. 

 

Too many teens say they have been pressured to do something sexual that made them uncomfortable or took them farther sexually than they wanted to go, according to new data released this week from The National Campaign.  Nearly one in five teens say they have felt pressure, and 24% of 17-year-old teen girls report feeling sexual pressure.

  

PS:  Like the images in our Survey Says series?  If so, feel free to download them.  

  
Make a date with our data section.  

 

The National Campaign's online data section is perennially one of the most popular sections of TheNationalCampaign.org. Thanks to the fully refurbished and buffed up data portal on the new NationalCampaign.org, finding the latest national and state data, identifying trends, and downloading state fact sheets has never been easier.

Plan First Public Meetings
Plan First Waiver Renewal 
  
Public meetings will be held on April 9th at the Riverstone Community Health Center in Billings, and April 14th at the Cogswell Building C205 in Helena.  These meetings are to review the waiver renewal and discuss any updates to Plan First. If you have questions please contact Liz LeLacheur at 444-6002 or [email protected]
WIC and MCH Programs and HIV
Webinar Series

 

Region VIII of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Mountain Plains Region of the USDA Food and Nutrition Services have partnered to present a series of webinars targeting WIC and MCH programs across the nation as they are committed to ensuring that health issues related to women, infants, and children are addressed.   

  

WOMEN, WIC, AND HIV - WHY AND WHY NOW?

Wednesday March 12, 2014 from 1:00 - 2:30 pm MT

 

Caring for the Maternal and Child Health Population living with HIV/AIDS

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 from 1:00 - 2:30 pm MT

 

Best Practices:  Addressing HIV/AIDS in the WIC Clinic and Community

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 from 1:00 - 2:30 pm MT 

 

Live Long and Strong Webinar
Live Long and Strong: Celebrating Aging and Minority Women's Health Webinar
  

Event:

"Live Long and Strong: Celebrating Aging and Minority Women's Health"

Type:

Listed Event

Event address for attendees:

https://aoa-events.webex.com/aoa-events/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=668096223

 

 

Date and time:

Friday, March 14, 2014 9:00 am
Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)

Duration:

3 hours

Description:

Event number:

668 096 223

Event password:

123456

Host key:

329411

  
STD Webinar
Behavioral Risk Assessment and STD Screening: A Montana Webinar Training

 

March 12th

11:00-12:30 p.m. MST

 

The HIV epidemic is changing. As care providers, our responses to it must evolve as well. "Prevention fatigue," increased longevity related to antiretroviral therapy, and the role of drug use in communities at risk have affected changes in HIV transmission patterns. Yet many providers do not routinely ask HIV positive patients about behaviors related to transmission of HIV to others.

 

The first Module of the Ask-Screen-Intervene curriculum addresses:

* Emerging trends in the HIV epidemic

* The increasingly recognized role of other STDs in the transmission and acquisition of HIV

* Recommendations for enhancing STD/HIV risk screening and assessment techniques

* Overcoming barriers to the use of tailored prevention strategies with individual patients

 

By providing you the most up-to-date information on the what's, when's, and how's of periodic STD screening and treatment, this session will facilitate your implementation of this effective biomedical approach to HIV prevention.

 

Please contact Jillian White with any questions or concerns

at [email protected] or register at:

https://denverptc.org/register.html?id=964 

National Public Health Week

National Public Health Week

 

The American Public Health Association champions the health of all people and communities. We strengthen the profession of public health; foster understanding, engagement and support for key public health issues; and directly influence public policy to improve global health.

 

During the first full week of April each year, APHA brings together communities across the United States to observe National Public Health Week as a time to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation. For nearly 20 years, APHA has served as the organizer of NPHW. Every year, the Association develops a national campaign to educate the public, policymakers and practitioners about issues related to each year's theme.

 

Learn more at www.apha.org.

  
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

 

In honor of the annual National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD), the TX/OK AIDS Education & Training Center (TX/OK AETC) in collaboration with the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC) and the Urban Inter-Tribal Center of Texas, will host this FREE webinar series scheduled for March 28, 2014. Sessions will feature an interactive, web-based approach to learning! Participants will be able to view slides, hear audio, interact with presenters, chat, and answer polling questions. Pick-and-choose trainings of interest!  Check-out the attached flyer!  

FDA Decision on Restrictions of EC
Women's Health Advocates Celebrate FDA Decision

to Remove Restrictions on Generic Emergency Contraception

Generic Emergency Contraceptive Pills Move One Step Closer to Full Over-the-Counter Status

 

(WASHINGTON, DC) --- Late Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a letter ruling that generic versions of the levonorgestrel-based emergency contraceptive (EC) pill Plan B One-Step� can be sold on store shelves without restriction.  Labels for the generics must indicate the product is intended for use only by women ages 17 and older, but women will not need to show proof of age in order to purchase it. 

 

This means that in the very near future, people seeking generic emergency contraception, which tends to cost $7 less on average than the brand name product,[1] will be able to get it directly off the shelf instead of from a pharmacist. Moving generic products to the shelf will also hopefully result in market competition that will drive down the price of EC overall. 

 

"This is a significant leap forward in obtaining full over-the-counter status for emergency contraception and we commend the FDA for this decision. EC can be used safely and effectively by people of all ages and it should be available without unnecessary and arbitrary barriers," said Jessica Arons, President and CEO of Reproductive Health Technologies Project. 

 

"We hope and expect that all manufacturers of generic EC products will submit applications with the suggested labeling to the FDA immediately.  The sooner generic EC becomes available without point-of-sale restrictions, the sooner people will be able to purchase a more affordable, time-sensitive, back-up birth control option without delay."

 

In making this move, the FDA will be in nearly full compliance with an April 5th, 2013 federal district court order requiring the FDA to "make [all] levonorgestrel-based emergency contraceptives available without a prescription and without point-of-sale or age restrictions."  Generic EC products will be able to drop the age limit in their labeling entirely when Teva, Plan B One-Step's manufacturer, loses its market exclusivity for ages 16 and under on April 30, 2016.

  
Teens Likely to Request Early IUD Removal
Teens likely to request early IUD removal

 

By: Miranda Hester

 

Intrauterine devices (IUDs) are an effective form of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) with low complication rates, yet adolescents are more likely than adult women to request early removal of the devices, according to a new study in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

 

Researchers from the Riverside Health System in Newport News, Virginia performed a multicenter retrospective chart review of teenagers and women aged 13 to 35 years who had undergone IUD insertion for contraception between June 2008 and June 2011. Of the 2523 charts review, 2138 patients were included in the analysis.

 

After average follow up of 37�11 months, the overall rates of IUD expulsion or pregnancy were 6% and 1%, respectively. There was no significant difference by age or parity. Rates of discontinuation of IUDs were 19% at 12 months and 41% after the average follow-up of 37 months. Although rates of IUD removal were similar across all age groups at 12 months of usage, teenagers aged 13-19 years were more likely than others to request early removal at the end of the total follow-up period. No statistical differences were seen in rates of pelvic inflammatory disease (2%) based on age. Risks of explusion and contraceptive failure were higher with copper IUDs than with a  levonorgestrel intrauterine system (hazard ratios [HRs] 1.62, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.06-2.50; HRs 4.89, 95% CI 2.02-11.80, respectively) after adjusting for age and parity.

 

Concluding that teenagers were most likely to prematurely discontinue use of their IUD, the investigators urged physicians to provide additional counseling on the potential complications of IUDs as well as the benefits of LARCs

  
Life is Short - Smile!

     

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