Greetings Title X Grantee Agencies,
Welcome to the July RTC monthly Listserv.
Let us start out by saying thanks to all of you for the positive feedback
on the HIV 101 online trainings that were launched on famplan.org
last month. We are really excited about making these new tools available
for our Title X grantees. We would also like to thank all of you for
hosting the RTC team during site visits over the past couple of months.
The information we have been gathering from meeting with you and your
staff has been instrumental in planning an exciting 2006-2007 training
calendar. Be on the lookout for the calendar in September.
On another note, we have confirmed the date for the
Clinical Update! Mark your calendars for Friday, October 27, 2006.
The Clinical Update will be held at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel
in Marlborough, MA. More details to follow. Please see the attached
save the date!
As always, we have also included the month of July's
article highlights which can be found below. You can simply open the
attachments that pertain to each topic to read more about a particular
issue. Also, please remember to check out the announcements, meetings
and other calendar reminders at the end of this e-mail.
We know that you are all very busy providing much needed
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.
The Listserv e-mail will arrive in your in box on the
last Tuesday of every month.
Thank you for your wonderful support of the RTC. It
is such a pleasure to work with you all.
Warm Regards,
The JSI RTC Team
June 2006 Articles
HIV Integration Project (HIV)
HIV Risk, Prevention and Testing Behaviors - United
States, National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System: Men Who Have
Sex With Men, November 2003-April 2005.
(See Attachment)
Clinical Advisory Committee (CAC)
Gobal Health Technical Brief: USAID - Five Simple Ways
to Improve Oral Contraceptive Provision and Use
(See Attachments)
Male Advisory Committee (MAC)
Factors Associated With Recent Sildenafil (Viagra) Use
Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States
(See Attachment)
Calendar of Events
(Disclaimer) Calendar events listed are the most up-to-date information
the RTC currently has recorded. All meetings, training dates, conferences,
etc. may be subject to change.
Clinical Update
Friday, October 27, 2006
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel
Marlborough, MA
In case you missed this announcement from last month...
HIV 101 Course Now Available Online!
To help meet the need for training that does not require
travel and can be accessed at the participant’s convenience,
the Region I Title X Family Planning Training Center is providing
a new service. We will search the Internet for online courses on topics
of interest to Region I Title X staff, review them and post the links
to courses that meet our criteria. The first online courses (two of
them) we have chosen to post cover the topic “HIV 101”.
To access these links, go the www.famplan.org
and click on “Online Courses” under the “Resources”
heading.
To comment on this new resource or to make suggestions
for types (topics) of online courses you’d like to have posted,
please contact Amy Behrens at abehrens@jsi.com.
Title X Priorities and Procedures Now Available!
The policies and protocols page is now up and running
on famplan.org! To access them
click on the link "Grantee Representative Log-in" on the
left-hand side of the page underneath the menu options. The username
is: JSIfp and the password is: Title!0 (both are case-sensitive and
the last two characters in the password are an exclamation point and
the number zero).
Title X Regional Training Center
JSI Reasearch and Training, Inc.
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 02210
e-mail: rtctitlex@jsi.com
