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How Health Departments Are Modernizing HIV Prevention with Pre-Exposure...
By Christopher Cannon, Manager, Health Care Access, NASTAD http://www.nikeairmaxfreedom.com air max Prior to the approval of Truvada as PrEP, health departments feared there would be a rush of affluent...
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How New York is Using Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to End HIV
By Dan O’Connell, Director, AIDS Institute, New York State Department of Health The AIDS Institute, New York State Department of Health In June of this year, New York’s Governor, Andrew M. Cuomo,...
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A Blueprint for Meaningful Community Engagement and Advocacy to End HIV and...
By Emily McCloskey, Manager, Policy and Legislative Affairs Today, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) released A Path to Policy: A Blueprint for Community Engagement...
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How the National HIV/AIDS Strategy is Influencing Health Department Funding...
By Erin McElderry, Associate, Prevention, NASTAD The National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), released in 2010, is the nation’s guide towards taking measureable steps to end the HIV epidemic. It proposes a...
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NASTAD Partners With National Organizations to Encourage Gay Youth to “Speak...
By Carlos De Leon, Senior Associate, Health Equity and Prevention, NASTAD Every person carries with them a unique story that, in some manner, affects the person that they are and they embody. It is...
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Raising the Bars: Addressing the HIV Care Continuum in Resource Constrained...
By Lucy Slater, Director, Global Program, NASTAD NASTAD works to bridge science, policy and public health in order to support a world free of HIV/AIDS. To this end, and in line with the U.S. National...
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Supporting Biological and Behavioral HIV Surveillance in The Bahamas
By Rhonda Phill, Manager, Global Program, NASTAD “If we focus where the infections are happening by geography and population we can get to control the epidemic.” Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the...
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“All the Threads of the Tapestry are Equal in Value,” Dr. Maya Angelou
By Dr. Shanell L. McGoy, Director of HIV/STD, Tennessee Department of Health Dr. Shanell L. McGoy Dr. Maya Angelou’s pen was silenced earlier this year; yet her bold, brilliant, and beautifully crafted...
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NASTAD at USCA 2014: How Women are Being Impacted along the HIV Care...
By Michelle Allen, Senior Associate, Communications, NASTAD Every year since 1988, the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) has convened the annual United States Conference on AIDS (USCA). USCA brings...
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The Use of Fotonovelas for HIV Awareness and Prevention in Florida
By April S. Hogan, MPH, Community Prevention Team Lead, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Section, Bureua of Communicable Diseases, Florida Department of Health Click to see a larger version. A fotonovela is a...
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No More Silos – PrEP is One Component of Gay Men’s Sexual Health: A Health...
By Barry Callis, Director of Behavioral Health and Infectious Disease Prevention, Office of HIV/AIDS, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Dawn Fukuda, Director, Office of HIV/AIDS, Bureau of Infectious...
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Raising the Bars: Health Departments Use Data to Care Strategies to Improve...
By Bryan Collins, CAPUS Coordinator, Virginia Department of Health; Melissa Morrison Webb, Director of HIV Prevention, Tennessee Department of Health; and Todd Harvey, Senior Manager, Prevention,...
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Improving Drug User Health through Health Department HIV Prevention Programs
By Erin McElderry, Associate, Prevention, NASTAD New HIV Infections by Transmission Category, 1980 – 2010* In many ways, HIV prevention among people who inject drugs (PWID) has been a success story....
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Improving the Sexual Health of Black Gay Men: A Health Department Approach
By Justin T. Rush, Nicholas A. Rango Fellow, NASTAD 2014 ManDate Conference At the beginning of her term as Chair of the National Alliance of State and Territorial Directors (NASTAD), Maria Courogen,...
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Six Lessons for Health Departments Using PrEP as an HIV Prevention Tool
By Dave Kern, Manager, Infectious Disease Prevention Section at Washington State Department of Health Dave Kern In Washington State, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about pre-exposure prophylaxis...
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Illinois health dept. discusses plans for PrEP assistance
By Gretchen Rachel Blickensderfer, Windy City Media Group Cross-posted from Windy City Media Group Dr. Mildred Williamson With the 26th annual World AIDS Day commemorated Dec. 1 across the globe by...
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The Public Health Imperative to Integrate Drug User Health into Broader...
By Amy Killelea, Associate Director, Health Systems Integration, NASTAD “We must meet people where they are, and help more people on the path to better health … Together we can work toward the same...
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Year in Review: Top 10 Blog Posts about Health Department HIV Programs for 2014
By Michelle Allen, Senior Associate, Communications, NASTAD As we prepare to close out the year, we at NASTAD are looking back at some of the stories and content that generated the most interest on...
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Year in Review: Top 10 Health Department HIV Program Resources for 2014
By Michelle Allen, Senior Associate, Communications, NASTAD As we prepare to close out the year, we at NASTAD are looking back at some of the stories and content that generated the most interest on our...
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Year in Review: Top Blog Series
By Michelle Allen, Senior Associate, Communications, NASTAD As we prepare to close out the year, we at NASTAD are looking back at some of the stories and content that generated the most interest on...
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