Emerging Infectious Diseases

In 2011, the Academy applauded the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on their new national public education campaign "Testing Makes Us Stronger" that promotes the benefits and importance of HIV testing. The Academy on behalf of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Expert Panel called for the adoption of the 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendation supporting routine HIV testing in all health care settings and streamlining the administrative operations of widespread testing.

Policy:

• Policy Brief (July 2014): Hepatitis C Testing in the Birth Cohort 1945-1965: Have you been tested?
• Policy Brief (May 2012): Hepatitis C Screening and Testing: A Call for a National Response
• Press Release (August 18, 2011): American Academy of Nursing Applauds the Center for Disease Control "Testing Makes Us Stronger" Campaign
• Policy Brief (2010): Routine Screening for HIV to Decrease Personal Disease Burden, Health Costs, and Transmission of HIV
• Nursing Outlook Talk Blog Post: On National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Expert Panel on Emerging and Infectious Diseases Calls for Routine Testing 

News:

• Academy applauds Hep C testing coverage (June 10, 2014)
• 3.2 Million in the US Infected with Hepatitis C Virus (July 25, 2013)

Publications:

• Nursing Outlook: Hepatitis C screening and testing: A call for a national response (Volume 60, Issue 4 , Pages 229-230, July 2012)
• Nursing Outlook: Recommendations and reality: Perceived patient, provider, and policy barriers to implementing routine HIV screening and proposed solutions (Volume 60, Issue 2 , Pages 72-80, March 2012)

Experts:

• Emerging Infectious Diseases Expert Panel

Awareness Days:

• May: National Hepatitis Awareness Month
• July 28: World Hepatitis Day July 28.