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CDC Public
Health Ethics Forum Continuing Education Now Available!
This educational
offering is designed to inform participants on the interests and health of
women and girls and how best to consider individual rights and group interests
in public health interventions. At the end of the program, participants should
be able to identify public health challenges and opportunities to improve the
health of women and girls and articulate women’s health issues within a public
health ethics framework.
Update
to CDC’s U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2016: Revised
Recommendations for the Use of Hormonal Contraception Among Women at High Risk
for HIV Infection
CDC recently evaluated the evidence and the
updated WHO guidance on the risk for human immunodeficiency virus acquisition among women using hormonal contraception. After careful review, CDC
adopted the updated WHO guidance for inclusion in the U.S. MEC guidance.
Trends
in Cervical Cancer Screening in Title X-Funded Health Centers — United States,
2005–2015
In this
report, aggregated administrative data from the Title X Family Planning Program
were used to calculate the percentage of female clients served in Title
X-funded health centers who received a Papanicolaou (Pap) test during
2005–2015.
CDC
Launches Campaign to Help States Fight Prescription Opioid Epidemic
CDC launched Rx
Awareness, a powerful communication campaign featuring
real-life accounts of people recovering from opioid use disorder and people who
have lost loved ones to prescription opioid overdose.
STDs
at Record High, Indicating Urgent Need for Prevention
The majority of these new diagnoses (1.6 million) were cases of chlamydia.
There were also 470,000 gonorrhea cases and almost 28,000 cases of primary and
secondary syphilis – the most infectious stages of the disease. While all three
of these STDs can be cured with antibiotics, if left undiagnosed and untreated,
they can have serious health consequences, including infertility,
life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth in infants, and increased risk
for HIV transmission.
Prevent
Domestic Violence in Your Community
The CDC is committed to ensuring that all Americans, especially those at risk
for intimate partner violence, live to their fullest potential. The goal is to
stop IPV before it begins.
Breast
Cancer Awareness
Other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women. Getting mammograms
regularly can lower the risk of dying from breast
cancer.
New Study Shows Tdap
Vaccination During Pregnancy Can Prevent Whooping Cough in Babies
This study used data from 2011 through 2014 on babies younger
than two months from six states. It found that mothers whose babies had
whooping cough were less likely to have received Tdap during pregnancy.
Influenza
Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women — United States, 2016–17 Influenza
Season
To assess influenza vaccination coverage among
pregnant women during the 2016–17 influenza season, CDC analyzed data from an
Internet panel survey conducted during March 28–April 7, 2017.
Vital
Signs: Trends in Incidence of Cancers Associated with Overweight and Obesity —
United States, 2005–2014
Data from the United States Cancer
Statistics for 2014 were used to assess incidence rates, and data from 2005 to
2014 were used to assess trends for cancers associated with overweight and
obesity (adenocarcinoma of the esophagus; cancers of the breast [in
postmenopausal women], colon and rectum, endometrium, gallbladder, gastric
cardia, kidney, liver, ovary, pancreas, and thyroid; meningioma; and multiple
myeloma) by sex, age, race/ethnicity, state, geographic region, and cancer
site.
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