To provide updated information in the management of STDs and HIV. This course is targeted for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, CRNPs, clinicians, public health care workers, and other health care providers.
Lectures will discuss HPV including emerging topics and infection in men, STD interventions in adolescents, STD/HIV health disparities, oral manifestations of STD/HIV, STD treatment guidelines and a panel discussion on partner therapy, data updates, and hepatitis.
To download a copy of the brochure for this event, click here. To register online for this event, click here.
KTEN.com (Denison, Texas) (04.19.10):: Meredith Saldana
The group YW8 provides sex education to students in Carter County, teaching teens to have healthy relationships, draw boundaries and wait to have sex.
“We want our teens to be healthy and to be healthy we have to challenge some of the behaviors that culture is teaching them is normal,” said Nan May, director of YW8. “We especially challenge the behavior of sex and if we can get our teens to think through their sexual behaviors and what the consequences can be, they can critically think through the consequences and they’re choosing differently.”
Nan said: “For Carter County, where we have our 2,000 students, where we have been focused for the last four or five years, we have seen the percentage of teens that are testing positive for chlamydia going down, for gonorrhea going down. We’re watching the teen pregnancies and teen births and we’re seeing those fluctuate and moving down. So we’re very excited that what we’re doing – the message is getting out and the teens are walking with it.”
Kristi Inselman of the county Health Department said in addition to teens learning about healthy sexual behaviors at school, it is important for parents to talk with their children about sex. Her department provides sex education information to help parents with this task.
Saturday, March 27, 2010