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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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USPSTF Recommendations on Behavioral Counseling for STI Prevention
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National Coalition for Sexual Health Holds Second Annual Meeting
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The second annual meeting of the National Coalition for Sexual Health (NCSH) took place on September 22, 2014, in Washington, DC. Attended by nearly 60 NCSH members from around the country, the meeting provided an opportunity for the full membership of the NCSH to meet together, plan, and strategize for the coming year. Highlights of the meeting included:
- Hands-on media training using new NCSH-developed sound bites to promote media coverage of sexual health
- A dynamic panel on improving how providers and patients communicate about sexual health
- Highlights of new products and initiatives developed by the Communications Action Group (CAG) and Health Care Action Group (HCAG)
- Individual sessions for the CAG and HCAG to work on current projects and plan future activities
- Strategic planning across the Coalition as a whole
Presentations from the meeting can be found here.
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Telephone Interventions Increased Healthy Sexual Behaviors in Teens
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 According to a study in JAMA Pediatrics, brief telephone counseling helped to sustain the long-term impact from an STI and HIV intervention program among African American adolescent girls. The researchers randomized 701 young African American girls aged 14 to 20 years to receive HORIZONS (a CDC-defined evidence-based STI and HIV intervention) plus either supplemental telephone counseling to reinforce and complement prevention messages or just telephone counseling on general health information. During the 36-month follow-up, on average, adolescents in the experimental group were less likely to have incident chlamydial infections. Girls in the experimental group also reported a higher proportion of condom-protected sexual acts and fewer episodes of sex while under the influence of drugs or alcohol in the 6 months and 90 days prior to follow-up. |
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New Brief on LGBT Healthcare
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The Fenway Institute, along with the Human Rights Campaign, the Center for American Progress, and the Gay and Lesbian Medical  Association, recently released a new brief titled, "The Case for Designating LGBT People as a Medically Underserved Population and as a Health Professional Shortage Area Population Group." This brief encourages allocation of resources to properly serve LGBT people with appropriate cultural competency and outreach. The health disparities among LGBT people are stark and these designations would take a step in the right direction in order to combat these disparities.
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World Contraception Day
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September 26th was World Contraception Day! Celebrate with fun facts and pie charts about birth control use around the globe provided by Bedsider. Many countries, including the US, check in with their residents from time to time to find out what birth control methods  people are using. In the US, the most popular methods are the pill and female sterilization. People decide what birth control to use based on many factors, including: their experiences with methods, what they hear about methods from friends and family, their access to health care services, cost, and convenience. To see more country-specific data, check out this data set from The United Nations.
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