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Updated
Fact Sheet: HIV Among Women
Approximately one in four people living with HIV infection in the
United States are women. An estimated 88% of women who are living with HIV are diagnosed,
but only 32% have the virus under control.
April is
STD Awareness Month
The GYT: Get Yourself Tested campaign is a youth-oriented, empowering
social movement to encourage young people to get tested and treated for STDs
and HIV.
Use
of 9-Valent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine: Updated HPV Vaccination
Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
During its February 2015
meeting, the ACIP recommended 9-valent HPV vaccine (9vHPV) as one of three HPV
vaccines that can be used for routine vaccination.
Updated
Recommendations for the Use of Typhoid Vaccine — Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices, United States, 2015
Precautions and
Contraindications: No data have been reported on the use of either typhoid
vaccine in pregnant women. In general, live vaccines like Ty21a are
contraindicated in pregnancy. Vi polysaccharide vaccine should be given to
pregnant women only if clearly needed.
Reportable
STDs in Young People 15-24 Years of Age, by State
Sexually active adolescents and young adults are at increased risk for
STDs when compared to older adults. Acknowledging disparities in STD rates is
one of the first steps in empowering affected communities to focus on the
problem and helping the public health community direct prevention and treatment
resources appropriately.
Employment
and Activity Limitations Among Adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease — United States, 2013
Women were more likely to
report COPD than men (6.6% compared with 5.4%). Smokers who have been diagnosed
with COPD are encouraged to quit smoking, which can slow the progression of the
disease and reduce mobility impairment.
Tips from
Former Smokers: Meet Julia, Marlene, Tiffany, and Kristy, and Mark
CDC launched its 2015 “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign with a series
of powerful new ads featuring former smokers who suffer from smoking-related
illnesses, including vision loss and colorectal cancer.
New AMA,
CDC Initiative Aims to “Prevent Diabetes STAT”
Leading voices in health care launch urgent effort to reduce the
incidence of type 2 diabetes, one of nation’s most debilitating chronic
diseases.
Fact
Sheets on Women, Smoking, and Reproductive Health
Numerous fact sheets are now available and provide information taken
from Surgeon General’s Reports about smoking. Two fact sheets address smoking
risks for women: Women and Smoking, and Smoking and Reproduction.
Stressful
Life Events Experienced by Women in the Year Before Their Infants' Births —
United States, 2000–2010
Younger, less educated,
unmarried, and Medicaid-covered women had the highest prevalence of stressful
life events. Public health practitioners and clinicians can use the information
on trends and risk factors for SLEs to determine the likelihood that pregnant
women might benefit from screening for stressors during pregnancy.
Invasive
Cancer Incidence and Survival — United States, 2011
By cancer site, rates were
highest for cancers of the prostate (128 per 100,000 men), female breast (122
per 100,000 women), lung and bronchus (61 per 100,000 persons), and colon and
rectum (40 per 100,000 persons). In 2011, the cervical cancer incidence rate
was 7.5 per 100,000 women, representing 12,109 reported cancers.
Community Health Status
Indicators
CHSI 2015 is an interactive online tool that produces health profiles
for all 3,143 counties in the United States. Each profile includes new and
updated key indicators of health outcomes and includes teen births, preterm
births, routine pap tests, female life expectancy, and more.
Suicide
Trends Among Persons Aged 10–24 Years — United States, 1994–2012
Suffocation surpassed
firearm as the most common mechanism of suicide among females in 2001. An
uptick in firearm suicide rates was observed for males and females after 2007.
Update:
Influenza Activity — United States, September 28, 2014–February 21, 2015
As of February, 21, 2015,
and based on 3,118 (22.0%) cases with complete medical chart abstraction, among
253 hospitalized women of childbearing age (15–44 years), 67 (26%) were
pregnant.
Infant
and Maternal Characteristics in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome — Selected
Hospitals in Florida, 2010–2011
Interventions are also needed
to 1) increase the number and use of community resources available to
drug-abusing and drug-dependent women of reproductive age, 2) improve drug
addiction counseling and rehabilitation referral and documentation policies,
and 3) link women to these resources before or earlier in pregnancy.
Understanding
Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking exploits women, men, and children across the United
States and around the world. Preventing this violation of health, safety, and
human rights is necessary for the well-being of people and communities. Learn
more about resources that prevention practitioners can use to help.
Vital
Signs: Seat Belt Use Among Long-Haul Truck Drivers — United States, 2010
Improvements in belt design
might help increase belt use among LHTDs, especially female truck drivers, who
were shown in this survey to be more likely than males to never use a seat
belt.
Leading Causes of
Death, Females, 2011
One page tables are available by race/ethnicity and age groups.
Prescription
Drug Overdose Prevention for States [CDC-RFA-CE15-1501]
Working
with Publicly Funded Health Centers to Reduce Teen Pregnancy among Youth from
Vulnerable Populations [RFA-DP15-1508]
Maternal
and Child Health Epidemiology: National and State Coalition Capacity Building
to Improve Outcomes [RFA-DP15-1507]
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