PRISM Health

11/10/2024

🌳🌱 A HUGE Thank You to Our Incredible Volunteers! 🌱🌳

Last Friday, some of our staff at PRISM Health got together and volunteered with Trees Atlanta at Orme Park. Planting trees helps our community and environment become greener and healthier. 🌳💚

06/23/2024

An Emory faculty member, Travis Sanchez, presents incredible new findings from a first-year federally funded, direct-to-consumer HIV Self-Test distribution program. In its first year, the Together TakeMeHome program mailed more than 440,000 free self-tests to people in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

The Together TakeMeHome Program shows mailing free HIV self-tests can reach people who have never been tested or haven't tested as often as recommended. HIV self-testing opens the door to HIV prevention & treatment services. Read more:

This report describes a CDC-funded program that delivered approximately 440,000 HIV self-tests to U.S. residents.

05/14/2024

Last month, two first-year Epi PhD students from Emory University attended an NIH workshop in Birmingham, AL focused on Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research in the Deep South!

04/13/2024

Discover the power of SPACE Tool 2.0 – a user-friendly spreadsheet tool to help state and large city health departments estimate the impact of STI budget changes. Join us on May 14 at 2:00PM ET for an overview of the tool and hear directly from health department leaders about how the tool has been, and will be, useful in their STI prevention efforts.

https://bit.ly/spacetool

12/06/2022

CAMP is excited to announce the launch of the PWID+COVID-19 Data Collaborative, a stakeholder-informed initiative to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of people who inject drugs.

The Collaborative is currently seeking data contributions from people who have conducted surveys or research studies with PWID. For more information on these efforts — and to learn how to get involved — check out the PWID+COVID-19 collaborative website!

Measuring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People who Inject Drugs (PWID)

11/08/2021

Southern Fried Q***r Pride (SFQP) is hosting its last LET'S EAT! Q***r Community Potluck of the year, and PRISM Health will be there!

Drop by from 2PM-6PM on Sunday, November 21st at Neighborhood Church (1561 McLendon Ave NE Atlanta, GA 30307). There will be prepared food and beverages (all vegan options), but folks are encouraged to bring their own food as well!
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See the Facebook event page for details: https://fb.me/e/1pj9PWeUc

10/13/2021

PRISM Health studies will be recruiting at this awesome Halloween-themed event by featuring food, raffles, testing, and more!

Join us October 28 from 9PM to Midnight

The @ Promise Center
740 Cameron Madison Alexander Blvd. NW
Atlanta, GA 30318

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10/12/2021

COVID VACCINATIONS reduce hospitalizations and deaths.

It’s time to VAX UP! GET VACCINATED.
OCT. 14th 4PM-8PM BOOK YOUR APPT at fultonvax.coreresponse.org

Location:
953 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. SW
Atlanta, GA 30310

09/20/2021

Our new study calls for focused efforts to lessen persistent racial and ethnic disparities in HIV prevention and treatment in order to achieve the end of the HIV epidemic in the United States. Our study showed that compared to White non-Hispanic heteros*xual active adults (HAAs), Black HAAs have a 20-fold higher HIV diagnosis rate and Hispanic HAAs have a 4-fold higher HIV diagnosis rate. Connect to the full article from our website at

The Coalition for Applied Modeling for Prevention (CAMP) is dedicated to creating models that improve public health decision-making at the national, state, and local levels. We use statistical, epidemic simulation, and economic models to uncover new disease patterns and inform prevention policies in...

05/24/2021

Check out our new research that shows how a decrease in gonorrhea and chlamydia cases among US adolescents can save nearly a billion dollars in US healthcare costs. Why? Adolescents are changing their s*xual behaviors—many are undergoing delays in s*xual activity. Read more about this at CAMPmodeling.org

05/24/2021

A new study led by Samuel Jenness at Emory University and Eva Enns at the University of Minnesota investigated how Ending the HIV Epidemic investments in interventions targeting gaps in the PrEP continuum of care can maximally reduce HIV incidence among men who have s*x with men. A study recently published in the journal AIDS at: https://doi.org/10.1097/qad.0000000000002909. For this study and more go to CampModeling.org

ze their population impact. Design: We used a stochastic network-based HIV transmission model for MSM in the Atlanta area paired with an economic budget optimization model. Methods: The model simulated MSM participating in up to three real-world PrEP cascade interventions designed to improve initiat...

04/06/2021

Despite decreasing from 2016 to 2018, new diagnoses among American Indians/Alaska Natives increased by 11% from 2018 to 2019. Learn more about HIV among Native communities: https://aidsvu.org/national-native-hiv-aids-awareness-day-2021/

AIDSVu Rollins School of Public Health Emory University

From 2018 to 2019, American Indians and Alaska Natives experienced a 11% increase in new HIV diagnoses.