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CDC Re-launches AMIGAS With Updated Tools and Resources to Help Community Health Workers Boost Cervical Cancer Screening and Reduce Cancer DisparitiesAMIGAS is a bilingual educational outreach program. It is proven to be effective in promoting cervical cancer screening among Hispanic women and Latinas ages 21 to 65. This program is important because Latinas are less likely to be screened for cervical cancer than non-Hispanic White women in the United States. Latinas also have higher rates of developing and dying from cervical cancer compared to non-Hispanic White women.
CDC has developed new fact sheets on preconception care, prenatal care, and postpartum care for women living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Women with SCD are at greater risk for developing complications during pregnancy than women without SCD. For some women with SCD, pregnancy can make their disease more severe, and treatments may need to be changed to help manage complications. This makes preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care especially important to help women with SCD stay healthy throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period.
Maternal deaths increased in the United States during 2018–2021, with documented racial disparities. Respectful maternity care (e.g., preventing mistreatment, communicating effectively, and providing care equitably) can be integrated into strategies that aim to improve quality of care and reduce pregnancy-related deaths.
Although the United States has made progress in reducing the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child, it has not yet met the goal of reducing such transmissions to 70%. Self-reported HIV testing varied by state of residence. Using data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (2016–2019 this study examined the prevalence of receipt of an HIV test during pregnancy and differences in HIV testing during pregnancy by race/ethnicity, state of residence, and other sociodemographic characteristics.
This study examined associations between mild or asymptomatic prenatal SARS-CoV-2 infection and preterm live birth in a prospective cohort study conducted at three US medical centers in Salt Lake City, UT; New York City, NY; and Birmingham, AL.
Authors examine prevalence of sexual violence and stalking victimization by the same perpetrator, reporting perpetrator types, intimate partner context and impacts for this combination of victimization using data from the 2010–2012 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. Analyses examined the characteristics of the victimization, presence of other intimate partner violence by the same perpetrator, and victim impacts (e.g., injury).
Oral and anal sex with opposite-sex partners are common and associated with STI transmission. Trends in these behaviors over the last decade, during which bacterial STI diagnoses have reached historic highs while HIV diagnoses have decreased, are not well understood. This study examined recent trends in oral and anal sex and associated condom use with opposite-sex partners among females and males using data from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2011-2019.
The objective of this study is to describe pregnancy-related mortality among Hispanic people by place of origin (country or region of Hispanic ancestry). This report conducted a cross-sectional descriptive study of pregnancy-related deaths among Hispanic people, stratified by place of origin (Central or South America, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Other and Unknown Hispanic), using Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System data, 2009-2018.
