The Philadelphia Health Department is looking for a new Hepatitis Investigator to join the HEP program. See the posting details below. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Philadelphia Department of Public Health POSITION TITLE: Hepatitis Investigator EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree LOCATION: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION The Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) Division of Read more…
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/policy/pdfs/NationalProgressReport.pdf “On October 27, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an online report entitled Progress Toward Viral Hepatitis Elimination in the United States. In this inaugural report, CDC highlights recent progress made by the nation towards reducing the burden of hepatitis A virus, hepatitis B virus, Read more…
Webinar: More than Tested, Cured – Meaningful Engagement of Participants in Hepatitis C Work Please join the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, and the Urban Survivor’s Union for a webinar on November 14, 2017. The webinar will provide an update on Read more…
http://www.natap.org/2017/AASLD/AASLD_25.htm The US Department of Veterans Affairs presented data on effectiveness of at the 2017 AASLD Liver meeting. View slides at the link above.
HepVu is an interactive online resource that visualizes the first standardized state-level estimates of people with past or current Hepatitis C infection across the United States. These estimates were generated by Emory University’s Coalition for Applied Modeling for Prevention (CAMP), a project supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Read more…
NASTAD highlighted hepatitis ending the epidemic success stories from this year. Philadelphia was the latest in its campaign! “NASTAD is a leading non-partisan non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. and around the world. Our singular mission is to end the Read more…
“Washington, D.C. – Research presented this week at The Liver Meeting® – held by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases – shows people in treatment for opioid substance abuse significantly lowered their non‐prescribed opioid use after testing positive for hepatitis C virus.” Read full report: https://www.aasld.org/about-aasld/press-room/screening-hepatitis-c-improves-opioid-abuse-treatment-outcomes
Hepatitis C: State of Medicaid Access is the culmination of work by the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) to definitively assess the state of access to DAAs for Medicaid enrollees across America. Through a national report Read more…
https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-017-0192-8 New article from the Harm reduction journal about improving HCV treatment successes.
Monday, October 23, 2017 6PM-8PM Broad Street Ministries 315 South Broad Street Philadelphia PA