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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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2015 STD Treatment Guidelines Overview Webinar
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is hosting a free, live webinar, 2015 STD Treatment Guidelines: An Overview by CDC and NNPTC, on June 22, 2015 from 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET. Speakers will highlight several key changes to the 2015 STD Treatment Guidelines including alternative treatment regimens for gonorrhea, the role of Mycoplasma genitalium in urethritis and cervicitis, and diagnostic testing for Trichomonas. This webinar is intended for clinicians and other staff that provide clinical care for those with STDs or who are at risk for STDs.
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| ACOG Recommends Expedited Partner Therapy for STIs | |
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recently issued an opinion paper supporting the use of expedited partner therapy (EPT) to prevent gonorrhea and chlamydia reinfection. EPT enables the obstetrician-gynecologist (OB-GYN) or  other provider to give prescriptions or medications to patients to take to their partners without first examining these partners; however, barriers often keep OB-GYNs from using EPT routinely. The opinion paper also recommends that patient counseling and written treatment instructions for the patient's partners should accompany EPT. This includes encouragement to undergo additional medical evaluation as soon as possible to discuss screening for HIV infection and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Prevalence Monitoring Toolkit
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Cardea has developed a toolkit to support state and local STD and family planning programs, as well as other clinic administrators and managers, in monitoring and evaluating chlamydia and gonorrhea screening efforts. The toolkit, Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Prevalence Monitoring: Using Local Data to Guide Programmatic Decision-Making, introduces key indicators for assessing screening efforts, explains how these indicators may be calculated and used, and provides examples of each indicator. The toolkit also includes interactive Excel-based worksheets to generate annotated charts and data reports.
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Study Finds EHR Reminders Boost HPV Vaccination Rates
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According to a new study in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, using electronic health records (EHR) to issue reminders about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for young  women significantly increased the number of patients who got the vaccine. In the study, 6,019 patients, along with their providers, received reminders via EHR; meanwhile, a control group of 9,096 did not receive reminders. Patients aged 9 to 18 in the reminder group were nearly three times more likely to start the three-shot vaccination series and 10 times more likely to complete it than those in the control group. And patients aged 19 to 26 were six times more likely to start the vaccination series and eight times more likely to complete it than those in the control group.
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| NCHHSTP Strategic Plan Released
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The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) released their new strategic plan, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention: Strategic Plan through 2020. This plan updates NCHHSTP's current strategic plan and serves as a blueprint for achieving the vision of a future free of HIV, viral hepatitis, STDs, and TB. The plan sets forth goals to reduce incidence, morbidity, mortality, and health disparities, including key indicators to help track progress towards these goals. The indicators are aligned with the national plans, including the National Prevention Strategy, the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, and the HHS Action Plan for the Prevention, Care and Treatment of Viral Hepatitis.
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HPV Vaccine Provider Education Course Now Available
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WithinReach, in partnership with Cardea and the Washington State Department of Health, has released a continuing education course, You Are the Key to HPV Cancer Prevention. This free, hour-long HPV vaccine provider education course is designed for physicians, pharmacists, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and other staff who work with children, adolescents and their parents in primary care settings. This course helps providers frame the HPV vaccine conversation, encourages providers to make a strong vaccination recommendation and offers responses for the most common questions asked by parents.
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New Guide to HPV Resources for Local Health Departments
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The National Association of County and City Health Officials has released the Guide to HPV Resources for Local Health Departments to  assist local health departments and other agencies with increasing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates. This collection of fact sheets, webinars, infographics, print material, videos, and more can assist agencies with the development of HPV projects and vaccination campaigns. Note: Login to your MyNACCHO account is required; if you do not have a MyNACCHO account, you can sign up for a free account on NACCHO's website.
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2013 YRBS Combined Datasets Released
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Adolescent and School Health released the 2013 National, State, and  District Combined Datasets on the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) website. The combined datasets include more than 1.3 million records from 820 YRBS high school surveys conducted from 1991-2013, along with selected additional data from optional questions about sexual identity, sex of sexual contacts, HIV testing, bullying, and other topics. |
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NFPRHA Briefing on Contraceptive Access
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The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) is hosting a briefing on contraceptive access on June 4,  2015, at 11:30 a.m. in the Capitol Visitors Center (Room SVC 203-02) in Washington, DC. The briefing, Taking Stock of Contraceptive Access on the 50th Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, will discuss public health programs such as the Title X family planning program and Medicaid, which make contraceptive and sexual health services affordable to men and women. For more information or to RSVP, contact Burke Hays at bhays@nfprha.org.
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Peer-to-Peer Webinar on Public Health Laboratory Medicaid Billing
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JSI is hosting a peer-to-peer webinar on Public Health Laboratory Medicaid Billing on June 18, 2015, at 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. MST. The webinar will focus on the process of billing Medicaid and other third-party payers for public health laboratories. Susie Zanto (Montana DPHHS Laboratory Services Bureau) and Kirk Benge (Utah Department of Health, Public Health Lab) will present their experiences in navigating the unique steps, processes, setbacks, and successes that they have gone through while working to bill Medicaid and third-party payers for the public health labs where they work. Following these personal testimonials, there will be time for Q&A and group discussion. For more information or to RSVP, contact Mary McCrimmon at mary_mccrimmon@jsi.com.
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