Greetings Title X Grantee Agencies,
Welcome to the February 2008 RTC monthly Listserv!
As always, we have included the month of February's
article highlights below. You can simply open the attachments or follow
the provided link. Also, please remember to check out the announcements,
meetings and other calendar reminders at the end of this e-mail.
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services to your clients and staff. This is why we hope the Listserv
will serve as a resource to keep you up-to-date on the latest public
health information.
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The JSI RTC Team
February 2008 Article Highlights
HIV Integration Project - HIV
AIDS vaccine research--back to the drawing board
San Francisco Chronicle
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/06/MN5CUSK7G.DTL
Clinical Advisory Committee - CAC
Multicenter comparison of the contraceptive ring
and patch: A randomized controlled trial
Creinin, M. et al. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 111 (2, part 1)
The objective was to understand if the contraceptive ring or patch
was more acceptable, as measured primarily by continuation, to women
using an oral contraceptive and interested in a nondaily, combined
hormonal contraceptive.
(attached)
Being strategic about contraceptive introduction:
The experience of the Standard Days Method
Gribble, J.M., et al.
Contraception, 77 (2008) 147-154.
Many national and institutional family planning policies explicitly
include fertility awareness-based methods among the method options
that should be made available, but these methods are often not offered
for a variety of reasons. After testing the efficacy of the Standard
Days Method (SDM), which is a fertility awareness-based method that
identifies Days 8-19 of the menstrual cycle as fertile for women with
cycles lasting between 26 and 32 days, pilot studies were conducted
to introduce it into programs.
(attached)
Male Advisory Committee - MAC
Drug-resistant staph spreading among gay men: Researchers
believe MRSA being passed through sexual activity
Reuters
Tues., Jan. 15, 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22665539/
General Information
Quarter of U.S. women suffer domestic violence
1,200 women killed; 2 million injured each year, new CDC study estimates
Feb. 7, 2008
Reuters
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23056009/
To see the full Morbidity and Mortality weekly report, Adverse health
conditions and health risk behaviors associated with intimate partner
violence - United States, 2005, follow this link: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5705.pdf
Calendar of Events
See http://www.famplan.org/training.htm
to view the Spring Calendar
Upcoming training:
Title X Confidentiality: Legal, Medical, and Financial Issues
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Time: 8:30am -1:00pm
Location: Providence Marriott, Providence, RI, (401) 272-2400
Audience: Title X delegate agency staff, coordinators, counselors,
and managers
Planned for: Rhode Island Department of Health
Presenter: Victoria Green, M.D., Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Register by: Thursday, March 6, 2008
Fee: $15.00 for RI Title X clinics staff; $20.00 for staff from other
Title X clinics.
Objectives:
By the end of this training participants will be able to:
(1) Discuss Title X confidentiality mandates and legal responsibilities
of Title X delegate agencies;
(2) Identify Title X confidentiality mandates when medically treating
patients;
(3) Discuss Title X financial policies for confidential patients;
and
(4) Be able to create their own policies regarding confidential Title
X patients.
Upcoming meetings:
RTAC--March 27, 2008--JSI-Boston
MAC--March 19, 2008--JSI-Boston
Announcements
HCSM/Mulligan Center training calendar can be found on the HCSM main
page: http://www.hcsm.org/ along
with online registration. The calendar is also attached in pdf.
A number of you did not receive the Jan 2008 listserv because the
attached articles were too large to make it through your agency's
firewall. Please review last month's listserv (http://famplan.org/ls_jan08.htm)
and email abehrens@jsi.com if
you would like to see any of the attached articles. We apologize for
the inconvenience and will be mindful of the problem in future listservs.
Region I Title X Family Planning Training Center
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 02210
e-mail: rtctitlex@jsi.com
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