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Resources
CDC
STD Fact Sheets
The STD fact
sheets on the CDC website
contain information on Chlamydia
and Genital Herpes. These fact sheets consistently score in the top 100
most visited pages on the CDC website.
Fact sheet in
English
/ Fact sheet in
Spanish
Chlamydia
Testing Technologies
(01/2007),
Richard Steece, Ph.D., D(ABMM)
National Chlamydia Laboratory Coordinator
Infertility Prevention Project
Download
this discussion of
the principles, advantages, and disadvantages of testing technologies available
to treat chlamydia. Updated July 2004.
National
STD Prevention Conference
Recorded
sessions and presentations from past conferences are available for
download at the CDC's STD conference site. Conference delegates from academia, public health
departments, nongovernmental organizations, the private health sector,
and policy-related organizations are invited to explore current
issues, share successes, ask and debate new questions, and seek
answers that will advance STD prevention into the future.
Gonoccocal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP)
Monitors trends
in antimicrobial susceptibilities of strains of N. gonorrhoeae in
the United States in order to establish a rational basis for the
selection of gonococcal therapies. GISP is a collaborative project
between selected sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinics, five
regional laboratories, and CDC.
National
Chlamydia Laboratory Committee (NCLC)
A branch of the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL).
Provides a forum for the laboratory subcommittees of the ten Regional
Infertility Prevention Project Advisory Groups to discuss issues
and concerns regarding chlamydia screening tests and to develop
a common position acceptable to the Regions.
Association
of Public Health Laboratories
Promotes the role of public health laboratories in support of national
and global objectives as well as the policies and programs which
assure continuous improvement in the quality of laboratory practices.
Features sections such as advocacy, national conferences, education/training,
global activities, and public health labs.
YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
The YRBSS was
developed in 1990 to monitor priority health risk behaviors that
contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and
social problems among youth and adults in the United States. The
national YRBS is conducted every two years during the spring semester
and provides data representative of 9th through 12th
grade students in public and private schools throughout the United
States.
Other Sites of
Interest
Agency
for Health Care Quality and Research
The Agency for Health Care Quality and Research, the federal agency
that sponsors the US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations
on preventive services, has now listed appropriate preventive services
for women and men on its website. Chlamydia screening of sexually
active women 25 and under is included in the recommendations for
women, in English. Sharing this information with your STD prevention
partners can help increase awareness that Chlamydia screenings is
recommended as a "mainstream" preventive service for American
women, not a special service for a small subpopulation with unique
risks. Get
CT screening guidelines
and
a
fact sheet
(both in English). Or get a fact sheet about preventive services for
women
in Spanish (that includes a short section on CT screening ).
Alan
Guttmacher Institute (AGI)--The HIPAA Privacy Rule and Adolescents:
Legal Questions and Clinical Challenges
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
HIPAA established national standards and requirements for electronic
transmission of certain health care information. According to that
law, IPP health care entities are impacted and must be compliant
with the Transactions and Code Set Rules as of October 16, 2002, and
compliant with the Privacy Rules as of April 14, 2003. This comment
from the March/April, 2004 issue of AGI’s Perspectives on Sexual
and Reproductive Health offers a helpful summary of how HIPAA
affects STD and family planning providers who care for adolescents.
The
American Social Health Association
Contains a range of information on all sexually transmitted diseases.
Get Yourself Tested
Initiative to support STDF Awareness Month - Partnership
with MTV, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and
Kaiser Family Foundation to promote sexual health and
STD/HIV testing.
Healthy
People
A statement of national health objectives designed to identify the
most significant preventable threats to health and to establish
national goals to reduce these threats.
National Committee
for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
NCQA produces
numerous publications on health care quality and management. View
the annual State of Health Care Quality Report, including the
latest Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
measures on chlamydia screening in managed care.
National
Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA)
Provides ways to stay informed and get involved in family and reproductive
health. You can also sign up for the NFPRHA e-news bulletin by sending
an email to usetty@nfprha.org
with "subscribe e-bulletin" in the subject line.
National
Women’s Health Information Center
Provides answers to frequently asked questions about STDs relevant
to a woman’s perspective.
Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
The world's largest and most trusted voluntary reproductive health
care organization. Contains a range of information on sexually transmitted
diseases and managing fertility.
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