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Mashup Score: 9Out-of-control STI Epidemic Continues to Put Lives at Risk - NCSD - 4 month(s) ago
Promoting Sexual Health Through STD Prevention
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Infectious Disease With Monica Gandhi, MD
Infectious DiseaseMonica Gandhi MD, MPH, is an Infectious Disease doctor, Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She conducts research on mitigation strategies for COVID-19.
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Mashup Score: 15
Gaza’s healthcare system is “on its knees” as ongoing hostilities force hospitals to operate beyond their capacity and displace their healthcare workers.
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WHO: Seems like job of @WHO to be on the "side" of the hurt, injured, bleeding, infected, needing medical help, numbers in 10s of thousands- Gaza needs supplies for injured & displaced civilians-. Gaza Health Workers Struggling Without Medical Supplies https://t.co/L6XoWbi0G6
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Mashup Score: 5NYC Dept. of Health Issues Guidelines on Doxy-PEP for Gay, Bi Men and Trans Women | EDGE United States - 4 month(s) ago
New York City’s Department of Health has jumped on the Doxy-PEP bandwagon, issuing advice on how to prescribe a common antibiotic for morning-after use against a range of STIs.
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DOXYPEP: NYC and San Francisco making broad recommendations for DoxyPEP to prevent STDs in men-who-have-sex-with-men and transgender women (only proven in those groups)- hope is overall less doxy use if you don't need treatment courses due to prevention https://t.co/k2i90OWHBq
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Mashup Score: 3A Position Statement on Mpox as a Sexually Transmitted Disease - 4 month(s) ago
Current evidence strongly suggests that mpox is a sexually transmitted disease. Labeling it as such will help focus public health interventions and facilitate c
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See our position statement (with @drklausner) on why we think MPOX should be reclassified as a sexually transmitted infection https://t.co/PWPzgCawDT
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Mashup Score: 6Analysis | How a landmark program’s fate could upend girls’ futures - 4 month(s) ago
While the U.S. focuses on election news, the future of PEPFAR, which has been crucial to reducing HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, remains uncertain. A former PEPFAR official talks about implications for adolescent girls and young women.
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Adolescent girls are at much higher risk than boys in sub-Saharan Africa for HIV- PEPFAR has been critical for their health. Hope very much that Congress will quickly re-authorize PEPFAR to regain our standing in global health worldwide. https://t.co/WwDzUPYoca
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Mashup Score: 6PEPFAR Reauthorization by Congress Urgent for Global Health - 4 month(s) ago
This Viewpoint discusses the importance of the US Congress reauthorizing funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a program developed in 2003 that has played a critical role in fighting HIV/AIDS worldwide as well as other emerging infections and noncommunicable diseases.
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PEPFAR Reauthorization: US is losing its standing in terms of global health in light of supporting violations of humanitarian laws - would be helpful to reauthorize PEPFAR (global HIV program) in meantime to help assuage https://t.co/u3L02efADv
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Mashup Score: 13Early Tecovirimat Treatment for Mpox Disease Among People With HIV - 4 month(s) ago
This cohort study examines whether staring tecovirimat within 7 days of mpox symptom onset is associated with a lower rate of mpox disease progression among people with HIV.
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EARLY TECOVIRIMAT FOR MPOX/HIV: Case control study showing that early tecovirimat (known as TPOXX) reduced disease progression from MPOX (formerly known as monkeypox) among people living with HIV (PWH), who are particularly susceptible - odds ratio 13.0 https://t.co/9pYr3QtqrK
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Mashup Score: 2San Francisco Breaks Overdose Record. How to Reverse One - 4 month(s) ago
Knowing how is sadly an essential life skill for San Franciscans.
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RT @sfstandard: San Francisco is experiencing a record number of overdoses. Here's how to reverse one. https://t.co/Ler6oMuiO1
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Mashup Score: 9No cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women following HPV immunisation - News - Public Health Scotland - 4 month(s) ago
An exciting new study from PHS, in collaboration with the Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh, shows that no cervical cancer cases have been detected in women vaccinated at age 12-13 since the Human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme started in Scotland in 2008.
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Study in Scotland - shows that no cervical cancer cases have been detected in fully vaccinated women following the human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization program which started in Scotland in 2008 (starting at age 12-13) https://t.co/VwYTyEcC4h
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Mashup Score: 42nd Annual Pandemic Preparedness Symposium - 4 month(s) ago
Pandemic Preparedness Symposium: Antiviral Medicines for the Next Big Threat
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PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS: Look forward to participating in this pandemic preparedness symposium in March at Scripps - we have to build back trust https://t.co/mGChOM8mIB
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STIs OUT OF CONTROL: "Today, CDC released its 2022 STD Surveillance Report showing that syphilis & chlamydia numbers have climbed to record highs and that the nation continues to struggle to gain control of the epidemics of sexually transmitted infections" https://t.co/xMoX55WzHj