Psst, wanna take some extra drugs home to your partner? That’s the premise behind an increasingly common healthcare practice supported by the CDC. In patient-delivered partner therapy, health care providers offer extra prescription medicine to patients so that the patients can take some home to treat their sexual partners. The patient is cured; the partner is cured. Its a win-win situation, but what should the package look like that you take home to your partner and what should it say?
That’s the goal of an ongoing project to develop packaging and educational materials to support PDPT among providers, patients, and partners.
In preliminary efforts, AEI formatively developed and evaluated an integrated packaging system. As reported in a recent edition of the Journal of Sexually Transmitted Infections, the { read more }
FASD is a set of physical and mental characteristics that occur among children whose biological mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy. FASD has long been known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. The Academic Edge produced a CD-ROM to help care providers understand FAS and to seek a diagnosis if they suspect a child in their care may have been prenatally affected by alcohol. The additional funding allows AEI to development version