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This report summarizes the sexually transmitted disease morbidity for Los Angeles County for 2008. It identifies trends and patterns and provides updates of Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and PID reportable STDs in the county. The report lists STD trends, including a surveillance summary of STDs...

This report summarizes sexually transmitted disease (STD) morbidity, identifies trends and patterns, and provides updates on reportable sexually transmitted disease in Los Angeles County. It focuses on morbidity and trends in the eight Los Angeles County service planning areas. The report begins...

This report is based on data from a household survey from 21 sub-Saharan African countries. The study examined trends in orphanhood and living arrangements and the links between the two. The extent to which orphan rates are associated with these trends is investigated and whether there is a tendency...

This report provides a global update on the progress in scaling up priority health sector interventions for HIV prevention, treatment, and care in 2008 toward a goal of universal access. Of 192 United Nations member states, 158 reported data to WHO, UNICEF, and UNAIDS, including 139 low-and middle...

This report describes the HIV epidemic in Puerto Rico in 2006. The Puerto Rico Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed data on diagnoses of HIV infection, including infections that occurred in 2006 and in previous years, and used a stratified extrapolation...

This report presents data from the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System (NHBS) collected during May 2005-February 2006 and analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report is based on interviews conducted with injecting drug users (IDUs) in 23 metropolitan...

This pamphlet discusses pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medical term for giving medicines that fight HIV to people who are not infected before they are in contact with the virus, to try and prevent infection. The pamphlet explains that this approach is being studied in clinical trials with...

This monograph is a guide for assessing linkages that can be used as needed in regional or national contexts. It covers a broad range of linkages issues such as policy, systems, and services. It is meant to assess HIV and sexual and reproductive health bi-directional linkages at the policy, system...

This audiovisual file is a podcast featuring a woman living with AIDS. The woman tells the story of how she was diagnosed with HIV at age 16, how she was able to get information about the disease and treatment, and how that experience made her into an advocate for helping others. She emphasizes the...

This Web site provides interim guidance for clinicians who treat immune compromised persons, including HIV-infected adults and adolescents. The page explains that persons with low CD4 cell counts or AIDS can experience more severe complications of seasonal influenza, and possibly HIV-infected adults...