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CDC Announces Final Recommendations for Hepatitis C Testing Among Baby Boomers

Primary Materials

• Press Release: CDC Now Recommends All Baby Boomers Receive One-Time Hepatitis C Test
• Fact Sheet: Hepatitis C: Expansion of Testing Recommendations, 2012 

Related Materials

• Downloadable Graphics: Hepatitis C in the United States
• MMWR Article: Recommendations for the Identification of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Persons Born During 1945–1965
• Expert Bios:
  
  • Kevin Fenton, Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
  • From CDC’s Division of Viral Hepatitis – John Ward, Director, and Bryce Smith, Lead Health Scientist

News Releases and Announcements

• CDC Updates Gonorrhea Treatment Guidelines
  
  In response to recent surveillance data suggesting that the oral antibiotic cefixime is becoming less effective in treating gonorrhea, CDC has revised its gonorrhea treatment guidelines to preserve the last available effective treatment option for as long as possible. The new guidelines are published in the August 10, 2012 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Please find below materials to help you cover this important story.
  
  Primary Materials
  
  • Press Release: CDC No Longer Recommends Oral Drug for Gonorrhea Treatment
  • Fact Sheet: Gonorrhea Treatment Guidelines: Revised Guidelines to Preserve Last Effective Treatment Option 
  Related Materials
  • MMWR Article: Update to CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment 2010 Guidelines: Oral Cephaloporins No Longer a Recommended Treatment for Gonococcal Infections
  • Media Summary: Update to CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment 2010 Guidelines: Oral Cephalosporins No Longer a Recommended Treatment for Gonococcal Infections
  • Fact Sheet: Gonorrhea
  • Fact Sheet: Trends in Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the United States: 2010 National Data for Gonorrhea, Chlamydia and Syphilis
  • Expert Bios: From CDC’s Division of STD Prevention – Dr. Gail Bolan, Director, and Dr. Robert Kirkcaldy, Medical Epidemiologist
• CDC Issues Guidance on the Use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Heterosexually-Active Women and Men
  
  Primary Materials
  
  • Press Release: CDC Issues Interim Guidance on Use of Medication to Prevent HIV Infection Among Heterosexually-Active Adults
  Related Materials
  
  • Fact Sheet: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention 
  • MMWR Article: Interim Guidance for Clinicians Considering the Use of Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection in Heterosexually Active Adults
• Archive Previous Press Releases, Fact Sheets and Statements

Disease Information

• HIV/AIDS CDC's comprehensive Web site on HIV/AIDS
• STDs CDC’s site covering BV, Chlamydia, Herpes, HPV, Gonorrhea, PID, Syphilis and Trichomoniasis
• Tuberculosis CDC’s site offering a wide-range of information on TB
• Viral Hepatitis CDC’s site providing information on Hepatitis A, B, C, D and E

NCHHSTP Experts

• Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, FFPH: Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
• Gail Bolan, MD: Director, Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention Program
• RADM Kenneth G. Castro, MD: Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service; Director, Tuberculosis Elimination Program
• Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH: Director, HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
• John Ward, MD: Director, Viral Hepatitis Program
• Howell Wechsler, EdD, MPH: Director, Division of Adolescent and School Health

NCHHSTP

CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) is responsible for public health surveillance, prevention research, and programs to prevent and control HIV and AIDS, other STDs, viral hepatitis, and TB. NCHHSTP staff work in collaboration with governmental and nongovernmental partners at the community, state, national, and international levels.