Seeking Draft Recommendation Statement for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention

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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force seeks comments on a draft recommendation statement and draft evidence review on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the prevention of HIV infection. Based on its review of the evidence, the Task Force recommends that healthcare professionals prescribe PrEP to people at increased risk for HIV to help prevent HIV infection. The draft recommendation statement and draft evidence review are available for review and public comment from Dec. 13, 2022, to Jan. 17, 2023.

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5 Essential Frameworks for Preventing Violent Child Death

The U.S. has a violent child death problem. Developing strategies to prevent violent child deaths death from firearms and traffic crashes is a demanding task that requires consideration of numerous upstream, interrelated, and tangential issues. To help safety advocates develop strategies to prevent violent child death, we compiled five frameworks to help: Understand and explain …
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Network_News December 8, 2022

What Are the Risk and Protective Factors for Violent Child Death?

Gun violence and traffic crashes may seem like unpredictable events. But they are not random. They are systematic. Data reveal trends and patterns in gun violence and traffic crashes that can help us identify risk factors and protective factors. This is especially important for addressing violent child deaths. So what does the data show? Join …
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Network_News October 27, 2022

Recognizing National Latinx Aids Awareness Day

October 15, 2022 is National Latinx Aids Awareness Day (NLAAD). This observance calls for raising awareness on the impact of HIV on Hispanic/Latino/Latinx communities and eliminating stigma. NLAAD, first created by the by the Hispanic Federation and the Latino Commission on AIDS in 2003, is a good opportunity to feature the CDC’s Let’s Stop HIV Together …
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Network_News October 14, 2022

25,000 Comments Call for Safety Reforms in a Transportation Engineering ‘Bible’

More than 25,000 public comments were submitted to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on proposed changes to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). Our team at Salud America! developed three model comments asking FHWA to adopt a public health and Safe System Approach to reframe and rewrite the 700-page MUTCD, one of transportation …
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Network_News May 24, 2021

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Tell Leaders: Share the Real Risk to Pedestrians in Vehicle Safety Ratings

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing to consider pedestrians in their vehicle safety rating system. That is good news for a system that has ignored the safety of people outside the vehicle wherein “pedestrian fatalities have skyrocketed 77% since 2010, compared to 25% for all other traffic-related deaths,” according to preliminary data …
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