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Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis: Tools for Tackling a New Face of an Old Foe

This Public Health Grand Rounds session discusses how more patients can benefit from advances in diagnostic and treatment options, resulting in an overall reduction in morbidity from MDR TB. The session also explores the role of CDC, WHO, and other partners in combating the public health epidemic.

Maximize Health, Minimize Harm: The Role of Public Health Programs in Drug User Health

This report highlights opportunities for health department infectious disease programs to address a range of drug user health issues, identifies potential collaborators and provides recommendations for health department programs to consider to best meet the comprehensive health needs of people who inject drugs.

Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Control: A Guide to Essential Practice

This guide includes WHO recommendations on screening and treatment of pre-cancer lesions and on HPV vaccination made through April 2014, taking account of relevant evidence-based findings published up to December 2013; emerging practices that are still being evaluated are also noted in this publication. This guide, which replaces the 2006 edition, has two new chapters, one newly organized chapter, and two substantially revised chapters. The new chapters include: Essentials for cervical a=cancer prevention and control programmes; and HPV vaccination.

Integration of Public Health and Primary Care: A Practical Look at Using Integration to Better Prevent and Treat Sexually Transmitted Diseases

This report takes literature review, interviews, and an in-person meeting to examine the current status of integration of services provided for STDs and how transitioning to a more integrated model can be successful.

STD Prevention in a Changing Environment: Opportunities for Public Health Leadership Engagement:Opportunities for Public Health Leadership Engagement

This report outlines opportunities for leadership engagement that promotes core public health, with case examples specific to STD prevention. The opportunities in this report fall under four areas: partnerships, payment, workforce, and surveillance.

STD Prevention Resources for Public Health Leadership

This report outlines a collection of STD resources for health officials that may offer innovative solutions for reducing infectious diseases in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Drug Resistant Gonorrhea: A Challenge We Can Meet Through Public Health Investment

This information sheet discusses the challenges to drug resistant gonorrhea, why we should care about it, which regions experience the most cases, and prevention efforts to prevent an epidemic.

Guide for HIV/AIDS Clinical Care

This manual for clinicians provides guidelines for clinical care of persons with HIV/AIDS. This updated version incorporates many new insights, but the time-tested format has been retained – easy access to crucial facts for a busy clinician. The guide touches on every topic facing people with HIV and their caregivers.

Occupational HIV Transmission and Prevention Among Health Care Workers

This information sheet provides recommendations from the CDC regarding the prevention of occupational transmission of HIV to health care workers (HCWs). The primary means of preventing the HCW's occupational exposure to HIV is to follow infection control precautions with the assumption that the blood and other body fluids from all patients are potentially infectious. Plans for postexposure management of HCWs should be in place, and the administration of antiretroviral drugs as postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) should be considered.

HIV/AIDS Basic Training for Jail Providers: An Online Self Study

This online HIV 101 training course if for nurses who work in jails and provides free continuing education units. Training topics include: global and local epidemiology, HIV/AIDS terminology, how HIV is transmitted and prevented, stigma related to HIV and incarceration, how to screen for HIV infection, HIV treatment, standard precautions for jail settings, and practical implementation information from your SF jail colleagues.