Communicable Diseases

Dr. Alexis Hodges, a volunteer nurse practitioner at the Community Care Clinic of Dare in Nag's Head, North Carolina, provides patients with tip sheets and other resources from the Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit created by Americares and The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. December 5, 2022. Credit to Mike Demas/Americares

Post-COVID Conditions (PCC) Toolkit for Health Care Professionals from Americares

Post-COVID Conditions (PCC) Toolkit for Health Care Professionals from Americares Nearly half of Americans with post-COVID conditions (PCC) turn to their doctors for guidance. At NHCHC and Americares, we understand the critical role you play and the challenges you may face in staying current on this evolving field. We’re here to support you with the […]

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Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care (2016)

The following document is a summary guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambulatory care) settings. The recommendations included in this document are not new but rather reflect existing evidence-based guidelines produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. This summary guide is based primarily upon

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Prevention & Response to Infectious Diseases Within the Homeless Population(2016)

The recent multi state outbreaks of measles and global outbreaks of the zika and ebola virus underscore the need for comprehensive and effective community emergency response plans. In response to these and past outbreaks, government agencies, local and state health departments, and other entities have developed and implemented prevention and outbreak response procedures to reduce

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Adapting Your Practice: Treatment and Recommendations for Homeless Patients with Chlamydial or Gonococcal Infections (2013)

Clinicians practicing in Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) projects1 and others who provide primary care to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness routinely adapt their medical practice to foster better outcomes for these patients. Standard clinical practice guidelines often fail to take into consideration the unique challenges faced by homeless patients

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Adapting Your Practice: Treatment and Recommendations for Homeless Patients with HIV/AIDS (2013)

Recommended clinical practice adaptations for the care of individuals with these sexually transmitted diseases who are homeless; developed by clinicians working in HCH projects. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 1.2 million people aged 13 years and older are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States, with about 50,000

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Healing Hands: Homeless People at Higher Risk for CA-MRSA, HIV and TB (2006)

Homelessness increases one’s risk for infectious diseases and complicates access and adherence to treatment. Three infectious agents that disproportionately affect homeless populations — community associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) — are the focus of this issue of Healing Hands, which highlights recent research on screening, treatment

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Comorbid TB and HIV in a Chronically Homeless Male: Social Isolation Compounds Stress of Medical Confinement

Homelessness, long recognized as a risk factor for tuberculosis, can also complicate treatment, as this case report demonstrates. HIV coinfection increases the risk of progression from latent TB infection to active tuberculosis. Clinicians experienced in the care of homeless persons stress the importance of maintaining communication with these patients, even during medical confinement, and recommend

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Healing Hands: Chronic Hepatitis C: Silent Intruder, Insidious Threat (1999)

A great irony of human ecology is that whether homeless or not, people are themselves home to legions of microbe families which flourish at their hosts’ expense. Among the more insidious of these uninvited guests is the hepatitis C virus (HCV), first identified as a distinct, blood borne pathogen in 1988. HCV can lie dormant

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