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This report on HIV prevention interventions designed for and conducted among women of color in the United States is the third in a series of systematic reviews of HIV/AIDS prevention interventions for people of color throughout the United States. The report is based on evaluated research literature...

This report present statistics and trends for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States through 2009. The information is based on (1) data from notifiable disease reporting from state and local STD programs; (2) projects that monitor STD prevalence in various settings, including...

This report, based on a survey conducted in February 2010, highlights the legal environment for HIV testing, implementing HIV testing in health care settings, reimbursement, and barriers to HIV testing and evaluation. The survey findings provide an update to national data collected in 2007 on health...

This report discusses a study on HIV testing and diagnosis among adults in the United States, 2001-2009. CDC used 2001-2009 data from the National Health Interview Survey to calculate the percentage of persons aged 18-64 years who reported ever being tested for HIV in the United States. Also, data...

This report provides data on the mortality among patients with TB and associations with HIV infection. To investigate the impact of HIV on risk for death during TB treatment in the United States, data were analyzed for all culture-positive patients with TB from 1993 to 2008. The proportion that died...

This study discusses information on the 184 syringe exchange programs (SEPs) operating in 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Of these SEPs, 67% completed a mail/telephone survey conducted by North American Syringe Exchange Network (NASEN) and Beth Israel Medical Center, New York...

In this study, CDC reports on assessed hepatitis A vaccine coverage among children aged 12-23 months from 2006-2009, using data from eight Immunization Information System sentinel sites. Average hepatitis A vaccination coverage with =1 dose at the sites increased from 17 percent in 2006 to 47...

This report describes CDC comparison of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) surveillance data reported in 2008 from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDS) and the Emerging Infections Program (EIP), which conducts enhanced surveillance for acute hepatitis C in selected states. Results...

This report contains recommendations by the Committee on the Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis Infections of the National Academies of the Institute of Medicine, on prevention and control of hepatitis B and hepatitis C in the United States. The committee identified the underlying factors...

This visual file consists of 37 slides on the medical case management of diabetes mellitus and HIV. It explains the two types of diabetes, the class of HIV drugs that cause kidney problems or worsening of diabetes, the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy, and effective treatment. The online link can...