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This recorded presentation delves into the critical issue of STI disparities among adolescents in the Southern United States, a pressing public health concern with significant implications for health equity. Understanding these disparities is essential for developing effective interventions and...

This video discusses how during the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Dr. John Brooks, Chief Medical Officer for CDC's Division of HIV Prevention, joins HIV.gov Director Miguel Gomez to share the latest information on mpox.

In this video, the day before the 81st Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) started, Dr. Jonathan Mermin, Director of the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at CDC, spoke with HIV.gov Director Miguel Gomez about the recently released Doxy PEP clinical...

This fact sheet shows the effectiveness of school health programs and connectedness strategies in reducing negative health behaviors among youth.

This report from the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) describes its activities for the year 2008. It provides its history, mission, and key priorities, which are reducing health disparities, encouraging program collaboration and service integration, and...

This white paper outlines NCHHSTP’s strategic vision for program collaboration and service integration, building on and refining concepts.

This information sheet discusses pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). It explains PID, its epidemiology, transmission, signs and symptoms, complications of PID, treatment, and what women can do to prevent STDs, which are often the cause of PID.

This information sheet discusses chlamydia, a common STD that is caused by a bacterium. Topics include transmission, prevention, risk, symptoms, testing and treatment. The sheet also discusses complications if the disease is left untreated and its effect on a pregnant woman and her baby. Information...

This infographic, in the form of an information sheet, highlights the impact, causes, and consequences of STDs among young people – and what they can do to protect themselves. While STDs affect individuals of all ages, STDs take a particularly heavy toll on young people. CDC estimates that youth...