ASTDA Elections ASTDA is soliciting nominations for 5 open positions on the ASTDA Board of Directors, including 3 at-large positions and 2 early-career positions (no more than seven years from completion of training). We encourage current ASTDA members with interest in supporting the next generation of STI professionals to self-nominate. Healthcare providers, researchers, STI program staff, sexual health experts, and others who work in the STI field are welcome to apply by March 1,

ASTDA AwardsBest Oral Presentations at the 2023 STI & HIV World CongressChicago, IL  |  July 24-27At the 2023 STI & HIV World Congress, ASTDA gave away seven  $250 awards to early-career investigators who won prizes for the best oral presentations. The winners and their presentation titles are listed below. To see ASTDA recognition award winners in 2023 and past years, click here. Kathryn "Addie" Hayes PhD Candidate, Virginia Tech "A

ASTDA is launching competition to update the cover of our journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases. We would like to involve ASTDA members in redesigning the front cover. The winner of the competition will receive a prize of $2500. Full details of the competition are listed here. Please pay close attention to those details as submissions that do not follow the instructions will not be considered. Only one submission from an ASTDA member

The National STD Curriculum is a free educational website from the University of Washington STD Prevention Training Center. This project is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The site addresses the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, management, and prevention of STDs. The STD Question Bank on the site features interactive board-review style questions on a wide range of STDs. Questions emphasize key points in the 2021 STD Treatment Guidelines. You

Remembering Julius "Julie" Schachter It is with great sadness that we write to you that one of the greats of Chlamydia research, Dr. Julius (Julie) Schachter, succumbed to COVID in late December. Julie was born in 1936 and raised in the Bronx. His father was a furrier, and his mother was a clerk at the DMV. As the first in his family to attend college, he received his undergraduate degree

The new American administration led by Donald Trump and Michael Pence promises changes likely detrimental to the public health infrastructure addressing sexually transmitted diseases, and to the funding streams that support research on prevention, treatment, and education. Rollback of expanded health access, insecurity among immigrant populations, loss of legal protections for sexual and gender minorities, and aggressive restrictions on sexual/reproductive health services are just the most general areas that affect STD at the intersections of