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Barriers to Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among HIV-Positive Hispanic and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men

 

The figure is a photograph of the CDC Emergency Operations Center with text about a new report from MMWR on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

 

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The figure is a photo of a young Afghan receiving an ink marking on his finger after vaccination to identify his vaccination status

Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication — Afghanistan, January 2019–July 2020

After approximately 2 years of campaign bans by the insurgency coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, wild poliovirus circulation has increased in Afghanistan during 2019–2020, and a new vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 outbreak began in 2020.

QUICKSTATS

The figure is a bar chart showing that in 2018, the death rate from influenza and pneumonia among persons aged ≥65 years was 93.2 deaths per 100,000 population. Death rates increased with age from 31.7 deaths per 100,000 population among adults aged 65–74 years, to 94.2 among adults aged 75–84 years, to 377.6 among those aged ≥85 years. Rates increased with age for both men and women, and in each age group the death rates were higher for men than for women.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

The figure is a photo of a young man holding a PrEP pill with text about a free CE activity on considerations for preexposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention among adolescents.

 

 

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