Infection Control News

In a new clinical report, the AAP provides strategies to help pediatricians and other health care providers address parental vaccine concerns and increase immunization rates.

Results from an ongoing trial showed that long-acting injectable ART for HIV is effective for people who struggle to consistently take a daily course of medication, the NIH and ViiV Healthcare announced.

Bucking CDC guidance, Florida’s top health official said parents and guardians can decide for themselves whether to send unvaccinated students to an elementary school with an ongoing measles outbreak.

In recent years, cases of sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis have been rising in the U.S., affecting all populations and prompting additional prevention efforts.

Diagnostic stewardship, along with targeted prevention efforts and a testing and treatment clinical care pathway, reduced hospital-onset cases of Clostridioides difficile by more than 50% in a children’s hospital, researchers reported.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness, or CEPI, is funding a project to develop on-the-spot rapid tests for Nipah virus and Lassa fever to better monitor outbreaks of both diseases, the organization announced.

More than three-quarters of people with mild COVID-19 reported experiencing insomnia after recovery, and it was more common among those with anxiety or depression, according to the results of a survey.

More than one-third of children aged 9 to 17 years in the United States had received one or more HPV vaccines doses as of 2022, according to a new CDC report.

Many women with HIV reported using contraceptives in a survey, but just over half remembered having a conversation with a provider about them, results showed.

An estimated 5.8 million children in the United States have had long COVID, which may occur in up to 20% of children infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to the authors of a new state-of-the-art narrative review published in Pediatrics.