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Frequently Asked Question on How to Use STDPO
For the benefit of members who have joined us during the past 12 months
we we will start this week with reviewing some of the basics of using
STDPO. We often receive requests from both members and non-members to
focus on a specific topic or share some important information on their
behalf. While we are eager to assist with these requests, the site was
designed to be a two-way street in which members can both download
resources as well as upload their own information. The
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STD News
A4A Health: The Cost of HIV/AIDS
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calculates the annual
estimated cost of HIV using calculations that are based on the number of new
diagnoses and then multiplied by the lifetime treatment costs. The total
lifetime treatment costs of HIV (based on new diagnosis in 2009) is estimated
to be $16 billion ($16,000,000,000).
The states with the highest financial HIV burden were
Florida with 5,775 new Diagnoses
and a lifetime costs of $2,120,000,000, California with 4,886 new diagnosis and
lifetime costs of $1,794,000,000, New York with 4,649 new diagnosis and
lifetime costs of $1,707,000,000, and Texas with 4,291 new diagnosis and
lifetime costs of $1,575, 000,000.
The current lifetime treatment cost for
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Introducing the 5-Minute Clinical Case Study: A Man With Penile Ulcerations
In STD/HIV prevention it is all about brief behavioral interventions
these days. Brief interventions, particularly those using mass media, are the
ones that have the greatest chance of being brought to scale, i.e., reaching
significant number s of persons at risk at a cost that allows for
sustainability in times of dwindling public health resources. Training the STD clinical workforce is basically
also a behavioral intervention for which the same principles apply. Brevity
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What's New
STD Daily Update- January 24, 2012
[Compiled by Dan Wohlfeiler]- HIV-related news Gov Brown Proposes Cuts to California’s ADAP Program STD-related Scientific Papers (including Herrera and Bernstein and others!) Reaching patients and their partners through mobile: text messaging› Learn More
Sexually Transmitted Diseases ~ February 2012 - Table of Contents
Sexually Transmitted Diseases February 2012 - Volume 39 - Issue 2 pp: 81-160 View Contributor Index Original Study Long-Term Trends in Chlamydia trachomatis Infections and Related Outcomes in a US Managed Care Population Scholes, Delia; Satterwhite, Catherine› Learn More
Announcements
2012 National STD Prevention Conference
The biennial National STD Prevention Conference will be held form March 12 - 15, 2012 in Minneapolis. Minnesota. This is the largest STD prevention conference of its kind in the US, bringing together over 1,000 delegates rep...Posted on September 20, 2011
contact: STDConf@cdc.gov
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The 2012 joint meeting of the American STD Association (ASTDA) and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV will be held in Brighton, UK, June 27-29, 2012. More details will be shared as soon as available.Posted on November 09, 2011
contact: kees@rietmeijer.us
› Learn MoreCall for Research Proposals: 2012 ASTDA Developmental Awards
Call for Research Proposals: 2012 ASTDA Developmental Awards BACKGROUND: The American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association announces the availability of Developmental Awards for research on sexually transmitted infections...Posted on January 05, 2012
contact: jmm@uw.edu
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