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. 2024 May-Jun;139(3):271-276.
doi: 10.1177/00333549231199481. Epub 2023 Oct 16.

Use of Community Health Workers to Help End the Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Infections

Naomi Seiler  1 , Katie Horton  1 , Paige Organick-Lee  1 , Claire Heyison  1 , Alexis Osei  1 , Gregory Dwyer  1 , Aaron Karacuschansky  1 , Mekhi Washington  1 , Amanda Spott  1 , William S Pearson  2
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Use of Community Health Workers to Help End the Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Infections

Naomi Seiler et al. Public Health Rep. 2024 May-Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: Medicaid/Medicare; STD/STI; community health; infectious disease; sexual health; social determinants of health; workforce.

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Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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