For World Immunization Week, AVAC and TogetHER for Health are hosting a webinar on HPV vaccination among people living with HIV. Join us on Tuesday at 8am ET to hear insights on the research, advocacy, and implementation considerations.

#Chlamydia causes substantial fraction of #infertility chronic pelvic #pain & other #WomensHealth conditions. Encouragin data on #Vaccine work here NIAID News American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association
An investigation of trachoma vaccine regimens by the chlamydia vaccine... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

STI prevention researcher, Connie Celum answers the question, 'Why Doxycycline?' on today's #DoxyPEP webinar:
🔊 Safe, well, tolerated, and inexpensive
🔊 Active against chlamydia and syphilis
🔊 Some resistance in gonorrhea

.Annie Luetkemeyer breaks down 'what we're still learning' from #DoxyPEP AMR including its impact on non-STI bacteria such as Staph aureus, commensal Neisseria, and the microbiome and of course #STIs such as chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhea. #STIAwarenessWeek

A major takeaway coming out today's #DoxyPEP webinar 💥 Doxy-PEP should be a part of a comprehensive package of sexual health services. Check out this encompassing slide from Annie Luetkemeyer, courtesy of Stephanie Cohen.

.Fabian YS Kong (He/Him) @[email protected] breaks down two needs in #DoxyPEP implementation that would help ensure equity and access for all:
1⃣ Action is needed to address DoxyPEP AMR concerns
2⃣ Guidelines are needed to promote #DoxyPEP  among the populations that need them the most

AVAC's own Alison Footman, PhD, MPH asks our panel, 'How do we engage communities and advocates in conversations around #DoxyPEP ?' Annie Luetkemeyer: 'We need to ask communities what they need and not insert our own opinions on what we think they need'. 🎯

#STIAwarenessWeek continues with our webinar today at 3PM ET discussing #DoxyPEP effectiveness and AMR. Register here! avac.org/event/sti-awar…

Just over a week away! Thurs 25 April, 8 am ET

Don't miss our webinar co-hosted with AVAC focusing on #HPV vaccination for people living with #HIV and featuring perspectives from Kenya Medical Research Institute, HSPN, & Jhpiego.

Register here avac.org/event/the-impo…

Join @AVAC and World Health Organization (WHO) in a webinar: Coordinating Implementation Science: PrEP and the role of HIV self-testing.
🗓️23 May 2024
⏰4:00 -5:30 CET. Register here👇prepwatch.org/events/prep-an…

CARB-X will award up to US$1M to diagnostics and health tech company Scout to demonstrate proof-of-concept and feasibility ahead of development of a new point-of-care test – STI Scout. The test will detect gonorrhoeae & chlamydia.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3Jmz61u

CARB-X will award up to US$1 million to diagnostics and health tech company Scout to demonstrate proof-of-concept and feasibility ahead of development of a new point-of-care test – STI Scout... NGL STI Scout is a catchy name carb-x.org/carb-x-news/ca…

STD RESEARCH AT NIH: Great overview- our new leader at NIAID Jeanne Marrazzo also bringing STD research to the fore!
niaid.nih.gov/news-events/cl…

✨Tomorrow join AVAC and American Sexual Health Association to discuss everything DoxyPEP! And next week AVAC and TogetHER for Health will be discussing HPV vaccination among people living with HIV. Register today at tinyurl.com/STIAwarenessWe… and tinyurl.com/HIVandHPV

.Kate Miele of CDC STD names how advocates can embed #syphilis education and awareness into pre-existing programs:
🌟 Leverage social media platforms
🌟 Integrate syphilis screening and treatment services
🌟 Conduct outreach and set-up mobile clinics for testing/treatment

.Kate Miele of CDC STD says that #syphilis rates are a representation of 'inadequate access to healthcare and healthcare inequities'. We cannot end the syphilis epidemic in the US without ensuring universal healthcare access to all.

Neelem Gazarian of HHS.gov shares that meaningful community engagement is needed to address the the #syphilis in the US. Check out some of OASH's priority pops:
➡️ LGBTQIA+ communities
➡️ Pregnant people and their partners
➡️ PLHIV
➡️ Justice-involved people
and more

.Kate Miele calls attention to disproportionate cases of congenital #syphilis in 2022 during today's webinar. The highest number of reported cases were among birthing people who were non-Hispanic Black or African Americans in the US. More below:

.Kate Miele of CDC STD grounds today's conversation by saying 'I am so glad that #syphillis is getting the visibility it deserves' and naming that medical distrust and racist studies including the Tuskegee Syphilis Study has helped contribute to today's syphilis numbers.

AVAC's Alison Footman, PhD, MPH asks today's panel, 'how do we best address rising #syphilis rates in the US?' Neelam Gazarian of HHS.gov, 'AWARENESS! AWARENESS! AWARENESS!' Neelam highlights the need of having syphilis rates be front and center of conversations within communities.