The California Prevention Training Center (CAPTC) newsletter gives you the latest resources, news, and information in HIV/STI and sexual and reproductive health to support your important work.

Dr. Park just released her new book, Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the science, history and surprising secrets of STDs. She talks with us about stigma, its impacts, and how she tackles sex ed with her kids on Speaking Frankly.

On the newest Speaking Frankly, UCSF's Dr. Monica Gandhi explains the Johnson & Johnson vaccine awaiting FDA emergency use authorization, school re-openings, and how HIV activists laid the framework for the response to COVID-19.

The CA Dept of Public Health has released a Dear Colleague letter and expanded guidelines for syphilis detection in pregnant people.

The National Network of Disease Intervention Training Centers has a new web page with resources for COVID-19 contact tracers and case investigators.

Ripping the covers off sexually transmitted diseases, Jefferson Public Radio

Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the science, history and surprising secrets of STDs, Studio Tulsa

To effectively defeat the pandemic, we have to tackle white supremacy in healthcare, Business Insider

Biden should support abortion access during the pandemic and beyond, The Hill

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day reminds us of the deep costs of inequality, Washington Post

FDA approves first extended release injectable drug regimen for adults living with HIV, FDA

Want to motivate vaccinations? Message optimism, not doom, Leapsmag

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