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This webinar outlines the successes, challenges, lessons learned, and best practices on engaging with people experiencing homelessness in various jurisdictions.

The toolkit serves as a general resource for health departments, community-based organizations, and others on how to use the internet and other technologies to trace and contact persons potentially exposed to STDs including HIV.

This resource outlines the methods used to address STD disparities among young, gay or bisexual men and transgender and gender nonconforming youth aged 15-29 in Southeast Michigan.

This report presents data on the impact of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and genital herpes on 10-19 year olds in Arizona for 2009. The data were derived from the Arizona Department of Health Services STD Surveillance Database. The data are presented by race/ethnicity, county, and gender for each...

This report summarizes the results of a CDC analysis of recent trends in congenital syphilis (CS) rates, using national surveillance data from the years 2003-2008. Results show that after declining for 14 years, the CS rate among infants aged <1 year increased 23 percent, from 8.2 cases per 100,000 live births in 2005 to 10.1 during 2008. The increase followed a 38 percent increase in primary and secondary syphilis rate among females aged =10 years from 2004-2007. The report includes CS cases for each year 2003-2008 by race/ethnicity of mother, and region of birth for infants: Northeast, Midwest, South, and West. It is noted that of the CS cases reported, many of the mothers did not receive prenatal care.

This report presents statistics and trends for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States through 2008. The information is based on (1) notifiable disease reporting from state and local STD programs; (2) projects that monitor STD prevalence in various settings, including the Regional...

This report summarizes data on early syphilis cases reported as of May 31, 2010, in Los Angeles County, California. The report provides information on all cases of early syphilis, primary and secondary syphilis, and early latent syphilis by men who have sex with men, women, heterosexual men, sexual...

This report presents data provided by laboratories and medical providers to the Arizona Department of Health Services STD Control Program. It presents reported chlamydia and gonorrhea cases and case rates per 100,000 population for the years 2004 to 2009, and reported rates by age group, gender, and...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed serologic test results from persons aged 14-49 years who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005-2008, to determine whether HSV-2 seroprevalence in the United States has changed since 1999-2004...

This report summarizes an enhanced outbreak response, which identified 106 cases of syphilis with onset from January 2007 to June 2009, including six congenital cases in a Southwest Indian Nation. The enhanced, coordinated multiagency response involved tribal and Pima County Health Departments, the...