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Infectious Diseases
An illness caused by an infectious agent or its toxins that occurs through the direct or indirect transmission of the infectious agent or its products from an infected individual or via an animal, vector or the inanimate environment to a susceptible animal or human host. Examples include, but are not limited to, Influenza; COVID-19; HIV; Avian Flu; Mpox; Anthrax, and others.
Updated Oct. 23, 2020Who is the intended audience of this document?This document is for CDC country offices, ministries of health, sub-national public health authorities, and other implementing partners in non-US settings. While select adaptations may be relevant for any jurisdiction, the document focuses on adaptations that might be especially use
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
2020/08/06
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Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
In the Clinical Pharmacy Resident Intervention, a pharmacy resident creates and leads an HIV pharmacotherapy clinic to increase HIV suppression among veterans with HIV at the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System Veterans Affairs (TVHS VA) Medical Center. In the HIV pharmacotherapy clinic, the pharmacy resident performs ART regimen evaluation and ART
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
2020/08/06
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Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
PopART (HPTN 071) is a community-randomized trial of a combination HIV prevention intervention designed to reduce HIV incidence in urban and peri-urban communities in Zambia and Western Cape Province, South Africa. The comparison consisted of two intervention groups (Group A and Group B) to receive the PopART intervention and a standard of care (Gr
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
2020/08/06
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Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
The Home-Based HIV Self-Testing with Online Instruction and Counseling (HIVST-OIC) intervention is designed to increase HIV testing among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Hong Kong, China. The intervention consists of a home-based HIV self-testing (HIVST) service that includes a free HIVST kit mailed to participants, as well as online real-time i
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The <i>Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America</i> (EHE) initiative will leverage critical scientific advances in HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and outbreak response. The goal of the initiative is to reduce new HIV infections by 75% in 5 years, and by 90% in 10 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) routinely releas
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
2020/08/01
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Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
Options/Opciones is an individual-level, clinician-delivered HIV risk reduction intervention for HIV-positive persons during their routine clinical care visits and repeated at each visit. The intervention consists of a brief, patient-centered discussion (5-10 minutes) between clinician and patient at each clinic visit. Based on motivational intervi
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In 2018, rates of diagnoses of HIV infection (13.6) and HIV prevalence (369.4) among persons residing in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs, population of 500,000 or more) of the United States and Puerto Rico were approximately 2 times the rates of those residing in smaller metropolitan areas (8.1 and 180.1, respectively), and approximately 3 tim
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In 2018, persons aged 13–24 years accounted for 21% of all HIV diagnoses, with those aged 20–24 years having the second highest rate of diagnoses (27.9 per 100,000 population) among all age groups. As such, adolescents and young adults in the United States account for a substantial number of HIV infections. Understanding the burden of HIV among dif
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
2020/08/01
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Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
Males of African American Legacy Empowering Self (MAALES) is a group-level, culturally and historically congruent, HIV sexual-risk-reduction intervention. The intervention includes six small-group sessions and two booster sessions. Sessions 1 and 2 focus on past experiences and social expectations of African American men, historical discrimination
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
2020/08/01
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Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
Partnership for Health is a brief, clinic-based individual-level, provider-administered intervention emphasizing the importance of the patient-provider relationship to promote patients’ healthful behavior. The medication adherence intervention includes the following components: (1) brochures that introduce the patient to the concept of partnership
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
2020/08/01
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Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
Community Promise is a community-level intervention to promote progress toward consistent HIV prevention practices through community mobilization and distribution of small-media materials and risk reduction supplies, such as condoms and bleach. The intervention consists of 4 main components: community identification process to collect information a
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2020/07/06
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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
Comparing COVID-19 burials to Ebola burials, this poster answers the following questions: Is the body infectious? Is a team required for the burial? Can the family prepare the body for the burial? How do you handle the belongings of the deceased? Can the family select the burial site? Can the family have a viewing of the body? What PPE and hand hyg
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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology
2020/07/02
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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
COVID-19: • COVID-19 is a respiratory disease that was first detected in late 2019 and is present worldwide. • It is caused by a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). • Although most healthy people will develop mild to moderate disease, up to 1 in 5 young adults with COVID-19 may require hospitalization.Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS): • HPS is a rare
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
2020/07/01
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Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
SHIELD is a small-group, interactive intervention that relies on peer networks to reduce drug and sex risk behaviors. Participants are asked to make public commitments to increase their own health behaviors and to promote HIV prevention among their networks and community contacts. The intervention includes multiple training and skill building sessi
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2020/06/30
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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
Comparant les sépultures liées au COVID-19 à celles liées à Ebola, cette personne répond aux questions suivantes : Le corps est-il infectieux? Une équipe est-elle nécessaire pour l'enterrement? La famille peut-elle préparer le corps pour l'enterrement? Comment gérez-vous les biens du défunt? La famille peut-elle choisir le lieu d'inhumation? La fam
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National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
2020/06/27
Updated July 27, 2020While current data suggest that pregnant women, newborns, and children are not at highest risk for COVID-19 deaths, disruption of routine essential services poses a threat to their survival and health.Based on what we know at this time, pregnant women might be at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 compared to no
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
2020/06/15
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Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention
HIV Internet Sex (HINTS) is an internet-based, four-session, group-level intervention that includes a combination of voice and typed chat with two facilitators. In each session, facilitators present information, motivational skills, and behavioral strategies related to a specific topic relevant to online partner seeking and HIV transmission risk re
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