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3/10- National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness
3/17- Clinical Conference Call
3/19- MFPA Conference Call
3/31- I&E Materials Due
4/14- I&E Committee meeting |
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Do your best and forget the rest.~Tony Horton
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| 2015 Archived Ahlers Trainings | |  Ahlers Trainings 2015 Archived Webinars
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| National Campaign Highlights | |  National Campaign Highlights
LARC use increasing.
The use of low maintenance, highly effective contraception is on the rise in the U.S., according to new data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Women 15-44 using the IUD or implant-so-called long-acting, reversible contraception (LARCs)-increased from 1.5% in 2002 to 7.2% in 2011-2013. Women 25-34 (11.1%) are far more likely than those 15-24 (5%) to be using LARCs.
Save the Date!
The 15th annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy will take place on May 6, 2015. On the National Day and throughout the month of May, teens nationwide will be asked to visit www.StayTeen.org to participate in our popular National Day Quiz, which challenges teens to think carefully about what they might do "in the moment." The message of the National Day is simple and straightforward: Sex has consequences.
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| Technology and Social Media for Adolescent Sexual Health | | Technology and Social Media for Adolescent Sexual Health: 2015 Focus
In this edition of PrACTice Matters, Deb Levine discusses how sexual health educators can reach adolescents using technology and social media. Levine is the founder of YTH (Youth-Tech-Health), an organization that advances the health of youth through technology, and Go Ask Alice!, one of the first online forums for sexual health.
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| New Program to Improve IUD Access | |  New Program to Improve IUD Access
Bayer Women's Healthcare has launched a patient assistance program for qualifying women in need of intrauterine devices (IUD). The program, called Access and Resources for Contraceptive Health (ARCH), which builds upon a prior program, expanded eligibility requirements and added the availability of Skyla, in addition to Mirena. Learn more about the program. |
| Improving Children's Life Chances Through Better Family Planning | |  Improving children's life chances through better family planning
Isabel V. Sawhill and Joanna Venator
Non-marital childbearing is associated with many adverse outcomes for both the mother and the child. Most of these births are unintended. In this brief, Isabel Sawhill and Joanna Venator trace the effects of reducing unintended childbearing on children's success later in life.
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| Providers, Patients Differ on Birth Control Choices | |  Providers, patients differ on birth control choices
When women who are family planning experts need to pick a birth control method for themselves, what do they generally choose? Not the same thing the average woman chooses, a new study found. About 42 percent of the family planning experts in the study used long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) - a choice made by only about 12 percent of women in the general population. (Reuters, 2/24) |
| National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day | |
March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), women and adolescent girls (aged 13 years and older) make up about one in four of the 1.1 million people living with HIV in the United States. Most of these infections (75%) were from sex with men. Every year on March 10, and throughout the month of March, federal, national, and community organizations come together to offer support and hope, reduce stigma, share information, and empower women and girls to learn the importance of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). This year marks the 10th observance this day, which is sponsored by the Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
What can you do on March 10 to be part of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day?
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| New Study on Patient-Delivered Partner Therapy | | New Study on Patient-Delivered Partner Therapy
Promoting the use of free patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT) substantially increased its use and may have resulted in a decrease in chlamydia and gonorrhea infections, according to a new study. The study made PDPT available to clinicians, and provided public health partner services based on clinician referral. Heterosexual individuals with gonorrhea or chlamydia were eligible for the intervention. The intervention increased the percentage of persons receiving PDPT from clinicians from 18% to 34%, and the percentage receiving partner services from 25% to 45%. The intervention was also associated with an approximately 10% reduction in both chlamydia positivity and gonorrhea incidence. |
| Are You Ready for ICD-10? | |
Are You Ready for ICD-10?
October 1, 2015, is right around the corner, and, with this Transition Planning Timeline and Checklist, you can take a short quiz to determine how familiar and prepared you and your staff are for ICD-10. You can also gauge where you should be in the implementation process and review a detailed, interactive checklist and resource list to help your clinic prepare for ICD-10 implementation. |
| Reproductive Life Planning Webinar | |
March 19, 2015
3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. ET
The second session of the Putting the QFP Recommendations into Practice Series provides strategies to help women and men create reproductive life plans. Learn which questions to ask and strategies to help clients develop a set of personal goals about having or not having children. Register today! |
| New Comprehensive Guide on Adolescent Sexual Health Available | |  New Comprehensive Guide on Adolescent Sexual Health Available
The Youth Providers 2.0 initiative, a collaboration between SAHM and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, released of a compilation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinical Care Resources intended to provide guidance and resources for adolescent and young adult health care providers and youth serving professionals. It includes clinical care guidelines and resources that are free of cost; specific to adolescents or regarding a population which includes adolescents; open access or accessible after the creation of a free login; and nationally applicable. |
| New IUD | | New IUD
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new IUD, Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system, called Liletta. FDA approved Liletta for use by women to prevent pregnancy for up to three years. LILETTA will be available in the U.S. commercially as well as at a lower cost to public health clinics enrolled in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. For more about Liletta, read the Medicines360 press release and Liletta prescribing information. |
| HPV Vaccination Not Associated with Increased STD Rates | | HPV Vaccination Not Associated with Increased STD Rates
According to a study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the HPV vaccine is not associated with increased STD rates. Researchers analyzed an insurance database of young girls ages 12 to 18 from 2005 through 2010 to examine STD rates among girls who were vaccinated and those who were not. The data set included more than 21,600 girls who received the HPV vaccine and 186,500 girls who were not vaccinated. Study results indicated that vaccinated females had higher rates of STDs before and after vaccination compared with those who were nonvaccinated. However, there was no significant difference in the growth of STD rates between the two groups in the year following vaccination, leading researchers to conclude that the HPV vaccine is not likely associated with an increase in unsafe sexual behavior. |
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