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AL - NC STD | HIV Prevention Training Center

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The Alabama/North Carolina STD/HIV Prevention and Training Center (PTC) is a regional collaboration between a group of nationally respected experts in STD training and research. The center is comprised of faculty and staff from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the University of North Carolina (UNC), the Jefferson County Department of Health (JCDH) [...]

Web based Didactic Training Through UK CE Central

Friday, February 15, 2008

The Alabama - North Carolina STD | HIV PTC in association with The University of Kentucky’s CECentral.com presents STD | HIV Update 2008. Ten (10) separate training courses are offered with 1 hour of CE available for each course. The courses are all free but a time commitment from the participant will be involved. Courses offered: Complications [...]

Continuing Education Credits, examination, Genital Dermatology, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis, HIV/STD Update, HPV, Syphilis, Vaginitis

NC STD Update Web-based Training

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

This update provides an overview of the North Carolina STD testing and treatment protocols and revised communicable disease law for HIV testing. Agenda: Gonorrhea Treatment in NC: Dr. Peter Leone Herpes testing and treatment: Dr. Peter Leone Acute HIV Follow-up in NC: JoAnn Kuruc, MSN, RN Chlamydia Screening Update: Ron Higginbotham; Mary Noel Dodd NC STD/HIV Rule Changes: Pete Moore ER RN [...]

Acute HIV, Chlamydia, ER RN Recertification, Gonorrhea, Herpes, HIV/STD Update, North Carolina, Rule Changes, Videos

STDs/STIs: Old Behaviors, New Challenges

Mon, Feb 8, 2010

Click here to download a power point presentation by Rick Meriwether, UAB Department of Medicine, STD Program, entitled “STDs/STIs: Old Behaviors, New Challenges”.

New Tool to Fight Syphilis? Walmart Gift Cards

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

NORTH CAROLINA: “New Tool to Fight Syphilis? Walmart Gift Cards”
MSNBC.com (09.14.09):: Brian Alexander

Forsyth County, N.C., has already recorded 140 syphilis cases this year, more than triple the number for 2008, and the poor economy may be partly to blame, say officials there. However, the economy also motivated many residents to get screened for the disease when the county Department of Public Health offered $10 Walmart gift cards as an incentive. About half of 603 people tested during a recent neighborhood canvassing effort were enticed to consent in part by the gift cards, officials estimated.

“In the South, we have more people living in poverty. They have little or no health insurance,” said Evelyn Foust, director of communicable diseases for North Carolina’s Department of Public Health. Transportation to health care providers, especially in rural areas, is also a major barrier for some residents, she said.

Economic incentives also helped boost participation in North Carolina’s recent HIV education and testing program “Get Real, Get Tested,” which used McDonald’s cards. “I was in Rocky Mount where we screened 500 people in one weekend, when a woman came up to me and said, ‘You know, with their dollar menu, I can get five meals out of this.’”

North Carolina used federal funds to purchase the Walmart gift cards, and it used its own funds to deploy a mobile testing van and workers to help Forsyth County in its door-to-door campaign. The expense is worth it, since the interventions work, said Foust.

Under the earlier National Plan to Eliminate Syphilis, the state tested all jail inmates, alerted private doctors to screen for the disease, and conducted interventions similar to the one in Forsyth County. However, the program’s success led to its funding getting cut as the caseload fell. “In one year, I lost close to $1 million,” Foust said.

North Carolina, Syphilis