The CDC NPIN Featured Partner resource offers HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, STD, and TB prevention-focused organizations a platform to showcase their services, programs, and materials. Our goal is to highlight the work of CDC's prevention partners and encourage partners to connect with each other to share information and strategies. Organizations are nominated by CDC or their peers, or are self-nominated. Those selected are featured on the NPIN Web site for the month.
The New Mexico Department of Health (NM DOH) Tuberculosis (TB) Program’s purpose is to prevent and control the spread of TB by ensuring that person’s with TB disease receive adequate care, directly observed therapy, and a contact investigation if infectious. Other important program activities include case management of persons with TB disease , interstate/international referrals, surveillance, training for healthcare workers and other stakeholders, and screening to identify and treat latent TB infection (LTBI).
Photo (right): Sarah Yazzie, Diana Fortune, Deborah Isaacks receive CDC ETN Project Excellence Award 2012.
The NM DOH TB program collaborated with the Navajo Nation TB Program and Indian Health Service (IHS) to develop a multimedia campaign to provide TB education throughout the Navajo Nation. The campaign made use of many different media formats to deliver the information to the general public. Culturally appropriate posters were developed for display around the Navajo Nation specifically within the chapter houses, a centralized meeting venue on the Navajo Nation. Three billboards were displayed for over a year around well-travelled areas (e.g., Navajo casinos). Movie theatre ads ran for a year at two theatre locations in Gallup, NM and reached an estimated 500,000 people per year. In addition, the Four Directions studio in Shiprock, NM developed a 19-minute documentary titled “Tuberculosis on the Navajo Nation”. The documentary will be aired at IHS facilities throughout the Navajo Nation.
The need for this educational campaign was identified in a study conducted by the NM DOH TB Program. The study results indicated both a delay in patients seeking treatment and a delay in clinician diagnosis were significant factors in the high TB mortality rate in New Mexico. In addition to the general public media campaign, the TB program also maintains a high level of educational activities for clinicians throughout New Mexico including the Navajo Nation.
Posters from the program are available online:
- San Francisco AIDS Foundation – September 2012
- Georgia Department of Health – August 2012
- Chicago Department of Health – June 2012
- Hepatitis B Foundation – May 2012
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Gamma Mu Chapter – April 2012
- TB Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers (RTMCCs)– March 2012
- National Community Health Partners (NCHP) – January 2012
- New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC)
- December 2011
- Florida Department of Health, Bureau of HIV/AIDS
- October 2011
- International Federation of Black Prides - September 2011
- Baltimore City Health Department, STD/HIV Prevention Program - August 2011
- Asian Health Coalition (AHC) - July 2011
- Houston Area Community Services, Inc. (HACS) - June 2011
- National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) - May 2011
- Jackson County Health Department - April 2011
- National Jewish Health - March 2011
- South Side Help Center - February
2011
- The Positive Project - November
2010
- Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services (CARES) - October 2010
- Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) - September 2010
- National Training Center for Integrating Hepatitis into HIV/STD Prevention Services - August 2010
- University of Missouri Student Health Center, Sexual Health Program - July 2010
- Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc. (APICHA) - June 2010
- Centerforce - May 2010
- Internet and STD Center of Excellence - April 2010
- Brotherhood, Incorporated - February 2010
- California Tuberculosis Controllers Association - January 2010
- Guiding Right, Inc. - December 2009
- National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable - November 2009
- Salud Latina/Latino Health - October 2009
- Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective - September 2009
- Pima County Health Department HIV/STD - August 2009
- Organization to Achieve Solutions in Substance-Abuse (O.A.S.I.S.) - July 2009
- Latino Commission on AIDS - June 2009
- BASIC NWFL, Inc. - May 2009
- National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) - April 2009
- Stop TB USA - March 2009
- Empower "U", Inc. - February 2009
- National Tuberculosis Controllers Association (NTCA) - January 2009
- AID Atlanta - December 2008
Contact the NPIN Outreach Team for more information on Featured Partner nominations – npinoutreach@cdcnpin.org
