StopSTDs!StopSTDs! Improving Prevention Improving Prevention and Screening in Young Peopleand Screening in Young People

BlueShield of Northeastern New York

Capital District Physicians' Health Plan

Albany Medical CollegeDivision of HIV Medicine

SUNY at Albany School of Public HealthSupported by a Grant from the

New York State Department of Health, Office of Managed Care

Office-Based Interventions

Target: Primary Care Physicians in OB/GYN, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics

Baseline survey of provider STD screening practices

DVD-“Talking to Young People about STDs.”

Discussion about barriers to taking sexual history and routine screening

Dissemination of STD and Chlamydia screening guidelines

HIV Counseling & Testing/Reporting/Partner Notification Algorithm

Review of Chlamydia diagnostic tests

Education about confidentiality and Minor’s Rights in New York State

Summary of Provider Survey Results

A significant proportion of providers (80%) were not familiar with NAAT, and only 2% had used it

Provider-perceived barriers to STD screening and prevention activities for adolescents/young adults centered around confidentiality issues and discomfort about taking a sexual history

Providers were uncertain about health plan coverage for routine Chlamydia screening and use of NAAT

The mission of the Foundation for Healthy Living is to increase and disseminate knowledge about health care and improve the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Chlamydia, Herpes & HPV: Challenges in Testing, Diagnosis and Coding

• ½ day workshop with CME, breakfast

• Sponsors: – NYSDOH Bureau of STD Control, Region II Infertility

Prevention Project, Digene Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, LabCorp, Medical Society of NY.

• Exhibitors: – Becton Dickinson, Gen Probe, Digene, LabCorp,

NYSDOH BSTDC, Region II IPP, FHL,

Chlamydia, Herpes & HPV: Challenges in Testing, Diagnosis and Coding

• Update on Laboratory Methods for STD Diagnosis

• Challenges and Issues in Screening and Diagnosing HPV

• Panel Discussion

Audience

• 55 clinicians,9 county area of Capital District and Lower Hudson Valley.

• OB-GYN, Pediatric, Adolescent Medicine, Family Planning in managed care setting or county/state health departments

Outcomes

• Address knowledge gap

• Promote screening as standard of care

• Foster private-public collaboration