County of San Diego

EMAN Transitioning to CAHAN

Posted June 15th, 2009 in Managing Your Practice

County of San Diego health officials are urging local healthcare providers to enroll in the California Health Alert Network (CAHAN) before June 16, 2009, including those currently enrolled the County of San Diego Emergency Medical Alert Network (EMAN), which will officially transition to CAHAN on June 16, 2009. This conversion has become necessary for cost reasons but also to provide EMAN users with full access to CAHAN and with all of that system’s capabilities/features. To continue to receive public health alerts relating to San Diego County, it is imperative you enroll in CAHAN.

Topics: CAHAN, County of San Diego, EMAN, emergency preparedness, Emergency Services, Health and Human Services, SDCMS News and Updates

National HIV Testing Day

Posted October 9th, 2008 in Health Policy, Managing Your Practice

There is significant documentation to show that the life expectancy of individuals testing positive for HIV is almost two and a half decades. Even for people diagnosed at later stages of AIDS, current treatments are providing them with as much as an additional fifteen years of life. This alone is cause to celebrate. This is a much different picture from what was seen in the beginning of the epidemic when hearing the news that being HIV positive was the same thing as a death sentence.

Topics: AIDS, County of San Diego, HIV, NAT, Nucleic Acid Testing, Public Health

HIV Disease In San Diego County

Posted September 13th, 2008 in

Upon the enactment of the Ryan White CARE Act in August of 1990, San Diego County already had reported in excess of 2,000 cases of AIDS. At that time, the life expectancy of affected individuals averaged less than a year. Many factors in the HIV/AIDS disease epidemic have changed over the past three decades. The disease itself has changed dramatically from a death sentence to a virtually controllable, chronic illness. The advent of HAART (Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy) in 1996 contributed to this change in life expectancy of infected individuals.

Topics: AIDS, County of San Diego, HIV, Public Health, STD

From Switzerland to San Diego to Hawaii

Posted September 11th, 2008 in Personal Health

 

In February 2008, the County of San Diego Immunization Branch investigated a measles outbreak that infected twelve children. None of the children infected with measles had been vaccinated - three because they were less than a year old and nine because their parents had chosen not to vaccinate their children against measles. The cases in this outbreak were just a fraction of the 103 cases of measles reported in the United States in the first five months of 2008.

Topics: County of San Diego, epidemic, Measles, outbreak, Public Health

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