State Government Agencies

This facilitator's guide is meant to accompany the Slide Deck for “Sex Worker Health & Harm Reduction 101," developed by Reframe Health and Justice for NASTAD in the fall of 2022.

The National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center (NHRTAC) Training Deck is a learning tool designed to provide an overview of the basics for sex workers health and harm reduction philosophies.

This TelePrEP Online Learning Series provides information and resources to health departments, community-based organizations, and community health centers wanting to expand, strengthen, or develop a telePrEP program. 

This assessment tool is designed to help individuals and organizations, including state and local health departments determine the extent to which jurisdiction laws and regulations can impede HIV surveillance, facilitating privacy breaches and criminalizing HIV infections as well as related risk behaviors.

The recent emergence of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) calls for enhanced cooperation between public health authorities, homeless service systems, and other partners at the local level. HUD strongly encourages CoCs to contact their local public health departments, Healthcare for the Homeless agencies, and other local health partners to ensure the unique needs and opportunities related to the homeless service system are incorporated in plans to prevent and respond to infectious diseases like COVID-19.

This research discusses how PrEP was approved for HIV prevention in the US in 2012; uptake has been slow. Black and Hispanic people have higher rates of new HIV diagnoses than White non-Hispanic people in the US. We describe the inequitable use of PrEP by race within US regions from 2012-2021.

This new Road Map charts a way forward for country-level actions to achieve an ambitious set of HIV prevention targets by 2025. Those targets emerged from the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, which the United Nations General Assembly adopted in June 2021 and they are underpinned by the Global AIDS Strategy (2021–2026). The Strategy sets out the principles, approaches, priority action area and programmatic targets for the global HIV response

Data suggest nearly 3.7 million people, or 1.5% of the U.S. adult population, injected drugs in 2018--a dramatic increase from 2011. Ensuring PWID have have access to dignified care, services focused on preventing overdoses and the sprerad of infectious disease, and resources to improve housing access and socioeconomic factors produce better outcomes for individuals and communities alike.

As the United States heads into its third year in the fight against COVID-19, Americans have seen firsthand the importance of a robust and comprehensive response to public health emergencies and epidemics. The same is true for chronic viral hepatitis, a condition that impacts an estimated 3.3 million Americans. Without comprehensive plans to eliminate viral hepatitis, the US will fall short of reaching the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) goal of fully eliminating the virus by 2030.

This slide set provides key information on TB and COVID-19 co-infection.