Providing Affirming Care to Transgender Youth
One recent study shows that only 4% of trans youth with supportive parents attempted suicide, while 57% with unsupportive parents committed suicide… In the current political landscape, transgender hea...
13 Apr 202320min
The Resurgence of Congenital Syphilis in NYS: A Look at the Past and Present to Change the Future
In this episode host Melinda Godfrey, a Nurse Practitioner at the University of Rochester, and Program Manager of the Congenital Syphilis Prevention Project, (part of the NYS CEI Sexual Health Center ...
9 Mar 202324min
What We Know About Xylazine
In this episode host Lauren Walker, Program Director for the Hep C and Drug User Health Center of Excellence at CEI, speaks with special guests Dr. Sharon Stancliff and NYSDOH’s Lisa Skill about the i...
9 Feb 202330min
START Trial Update
This podcast is about a long term follow up to the START trial which originally showed that starting antiretroviral therapy even at high CD4 counts (above 500) was better than waiting until CD4 counts...
12 Jan 20239min
How Can We Destigmatize HIV and Pregnancy?
Preventing perinatal HIV transmission is an important strategy for eliminating HIV. Historically, rates of perinatal HIV transmission were 25-40% without interventions, but advances in HIV research, p...
8 Des 202227min
Taking the Next Step: Providing Proactive Reproductive Health Care in Your Clinical Setting
Reproductive healthcare is a critical part of healthcare overall. Yet components of this care, including abortion, are becoming more and more inaccessible to certain parts of the population, worsened ...
10 Nov 202238min
Universal Hepatitis C Screening among Pregnant Persons: The Time is Now
Hepatitis C is the most commonly reported blood-borne infection in the US, responsible for more deaths than all 60 reportable infectious diseases combined. Once most prevalent among “Baby Boomers” or ...
11 Okt 202227min
Some Basics About HIV-Hepatitis B Co-Infection
HIV and Hepatitis B share similar routes of transmission. In United States, a large cohort study of patients with HIV showed that over 10 % of men who had sex with men, over 8% of those who injected d...
15 Sep 202230min
