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On October 7, 2014, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day is observed each year on October 15 to focus on the continuing and disproportionate effects of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) on the Hispanic or Latino population in the United States. Two of the three goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy are to reduce HIV incidence and to reduce HIV-related disparities (1).

CDC Vital Signs links science, policy, and communications with the intent of communicating a call-to-action for the public. CDC Vital Signs provides the most recent, comprehensive data on key indicators of important health topics.

Image showing laboratories per state participating in CaliciNet and Support Centers.

CaliciNet is a national norovirus outbreak surveillance network of federal, state, and local public health laboratories in the United States.

Answers to questions about NoroSTAT including why it's important, types of data collected.

Norovirus multimedia products including web features and podcasts

In the United States, type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions among indigenous people. Community-based participatory research offers American Indian communities and university partners an opportunity to integrate skills in community action and systematic inquiry to develop locally acceptable primary prevention interventions to combat diabetes risk factors. The Hualapai Tribe and the University of Arizona designed, implemented, and assessed a school-based physical activity intervention to reduce diabetes risk factors among youth.

CDC Fact Sheet: Information for Teens: Staying Healthy and Preventing STDs

Children with uncontrolled epilepsy or frequent seizures are at the highest risk for SUDEP. 

SUDEP refers to deaths in people with epilepsy that are not caused by injury, drowning, or other known causes.

Primary Culture and Presumptive Identification Laboratory Methods.

Primary Culture and Presumptive Identification Laboratory Methods.

Clinical information on meningitis.

Collection and Transport of Clinical Specimens Laboratory Methods.