National Prevention Information NetworkBETA

This report is a cross-agency action plan to confront the significant cause of viral hepatitis morbidity and mortality. Multiple federal agencies identified strategic actions to be undertaken beginning in 2014 and continuing through 2016. This report is meant to articulate robust and dynamic steps...

This workbook contains an initial list of opportunities that stakeholders from various sectors can undertake to complement the federal efforts detailed in the 100-page Action Plan for the Prevention, Care, & Treatment of Viral Hepatitis. It was created to assist organizations and stakeholders...

This newsletter is a publication featuring information and news about infectious diseases for personnel working in and with correctional facilities. The Spring 2012 issue features articles discussing STD statistics, hepatitis, and Florida's "STD Specialty Care Pilot Project."

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Stepwise Approach for Detecting, Evaluating, and Treating Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection provides recommendations for the medical management of federal inmates with chronic hepatitis B, or who are otherwise at risk of infection. The treatment of chronic...

This information sheet is an agenda for providers who are taking a two-day training program in which they learn to serve persons at high risk for viral hepatitis. This material lists the training objectives and provides training modules, including specific modules targeted for substance use...

This Power Point presentation contains 181 slides that provide guidelines for the prevention and control of TB in correctional facilities, as recommended by CDC. The slides include a summary of changes from the 1996 CDC recommendations, background, screening, case reporting, airborne infection...

This report consolidates previous recommendations and adds new ones for preventing and controlling infections with hepatitis viruses among inmates and workers in correctional facilities. The recommendations provide guidelines for juvenile and adult correctional systems regarding (1) identification...