Presented by Susan Maloney, MHS, Managing Senior Fellow and Senior Program Officer, Partnership for Prevention, and Yvonne Hamby, Project Director, JSI Research and Training Institute and Infertility Prevention Program, Region VIII at the 2010 National

1. NATIONAL CHLAMYDIA
COALITION UPDATE
National Chlamydia Coalition Meeting 2010
Susan K. Maloney, MHS
Partnership for
Prevention

2. National Chlamydia Coalition
(NCC) Timeline

3. Changes this Year

4. NCQA 2010 Accreditation Measure

5. Why Chlamydia?
 Why is it Graded A?
 It’s prevalent
 When untreated, its consequences may be
serious
 There is an effective, simple screening test
 It’s cured with an antibiotic
 There’s evidence of clinical effectiveness
 Why is it a Quality Indicator?
 It establishes the need for risk assessment and/or
sexual history
 Thus, sets the stage for dealing with behavioral

6. Photo collage

7. Provider Education Committee
 Expanded outreach to state or regional
chapters and affiliates
 Developing additional tools in response to
requests
 Slide set on chlamydia screening
 Working on joint policy statement on
chlamydia screening
 Discussing kit of clinical tools

8.  The “…Research Committee goal is to
synthesize, summarize and disseminate
ongoing and published research for the use of
the NCC members in order to facilitate…”
achieving NCC’s mission
 Developed summaries of key research articles
for NCC Ne ws
 Drafted first research brief on testing
technology

9. Policy and Advocacy
Committee
 Maintains focus on pending legislation and
budget appropriations
 Addressing confidential care for adolescents
and young adults
 Opportunity provided by clinical preventive
services
 What next?
 Looking at emerging opportunities

10. Public Awareness Committee
 Support GYT and STD Awareness Month
 Completed assessment of needs FOR public
awareness materials and availability OF
materials
 Reviewed how materials are shared in other
fields
 Developing Chlamydia Resource Exchange

11. NCC Newsletter

12. Chlamydia Mondays
 Swedish website

13. NCC Committee Highlights
• ProviderEducation: Lisa Goldstein
• Provider Pilot Outreach Project
• Public Awareness: Yvonne Hamby
• Chlamydia Resource Exchange
• Evaluation: Sonal Doshi
• Evaluation subcommittee
• Update
• NCC Mini-grants

14. Public Awareness
Committee
Development of
Chlamydia Resource
Exchange (CRE)

15. Brief Overview of CRE
 Purpose of clearinghouse
 Why a public awareness clearinghouse?
 How did the PAC approach the site
development?
 Initially developed key questions to guide committee
consideration and discussion of site
 Reviewed other sample sites
 Conducted end-user survey
 Determined target audience of site

16. CRE User Survey
Summary of Findings
 Background of survey
 Primarily to solicit feedback on the design and
development of the CRE
 Survey sample
 179 surveys completed
 Key findings
 Of note was that 87% of respondents reported they
did not have materials to submit to the CRE site and
90% of respondents did not know of any colleagues
that would be able to submit materials either. This
response suggests a strongly felt, unmet need for
public education and awareness materials.

17. Recent Site Design
Accomplishments
 Recently established many functions for the
web-based public awareness system
 Submission form
 Suggested web site features
 Discussion of site promotion and solicitation of
materials

18. CRE Site Map

19. Next Steps for CRE
 Complete web site development
 Determine role(s) and functions for review of
materials
 Solicit materials for CRE
 Launch it
 Disseminate information and promote site

20. National Chlamydia Coalition
www.prevent.org/NCC