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Lessons Being Learned: COVID, Contact Tracing and Growing the Public Health Workforce

Statement by the National Coalition of STD Directors

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November 1, 2024

STI Engage 2025 Call for Abstracts Open!

Submit your pitch to include a presentation, panel, or workshop on the STI Engage 2025 agenda.
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October 13, 2024

Reimagining Patient Care: Understanding the Personal Impact of a Herpes Diagnosis

NCSD is pleased to partner with Emily L. Depasse from Sexelducation for Herpes Awareness Day! Emily is a sex and relationship educator, promoting sexual health as the ultimate act of self-care. In her most recent blog post, she reflects on the nea...

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October 3, 2024

STI Engage 2025 Prospectus Available Now!

Join the nation's STI professionals in Phoenix for STI Engage 2025!

September 17, 2024

DIS Recognition Day 2024

DIS Recognition Day is October 4, 2024! It may just be one day, but we'll be celebrating the hard work of DIS all week, and hope you'll join us.
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August 9, 2024

National School Health Data Shows Worsening Trends in Adolescent Health and Well-being

Fractured systems leave adolescents at higher risk for STIs

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August 14, 2024

United States STI Directors Warn of Lack of Mpox Preparedness & Funding as WHO Declares Public Health Emergency

GAO tracker reveals failures to learn from 2022 outbreak

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August 2, 2024

STD Directors Applaud Proposed Senate Funding Increase for STI Prevention

Senate recommends funding to bolster critical STI prevention programs and takes targeted steps to address dire syphilis crisis

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July 18, 2024

NCSD Applauds Mark Cuban and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company for Importing Crucial Syphilis Drug

Importation of Portuguese penicillin offers new opportunity to address multi-year shortage of lifesaving congenital syphilis treatment
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July 12, 2024

NCSD Praises Senate Committee for Crucial Bicillin L-A Proposal

Proposed language is the first action from Congress to directly confront repeated shortages
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July 10, 2024

House Federal Spending Plan Ignores Record-High Numbers of Congenital Syphilis Cases in the U.S.

Proposed funding level ignores overall record-setting rise in STIs and the funding needs of state and local public health programs

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Federal and State Policy

What’s happening in the STD Policy World from DC to Hawaii and everywhere in between.

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