Health Promotion Toolbox (April - Sexual Health Month) provides activities, posters, fact sheets, films, plan of the day notes, and other easy to useresources for promotion of sexual health in Navy and Marine Corps workplaces by collateral duty command fitness leaders and health promoters.
Sexual health resources for clinicians
CDC STD and HIV Prevention Forms
SHARP Training and other courses
SEMPER SHARP page - resources for Marine Corps users
SHARP Navy Women's Health - a place for Navy women and their health concerns
SHARP News is an e- newsletter for leaders, instructors, health educators, preventive medicine technicians, and other health staff regarding sexual health and SHARP issues. Send an e-mail to SHARP and ask to be added to the SHARPNews distribution list.
SHARP Facts are fact sheets about sexual health topics (each one page, front and back).
Unplanned Pregnancy Prevention Resources offers Navy statistics, Navy policies, fact sheets, and education resources for Navy people.
Guide to Brief Sexual Risk Assessment and Intervention for service members during theirannual periodic health assessment (PHA).
"Dear Doctor" letter (from Deputy Navy Surgeon General, 30 Nov 07) to all Navy health care providers - advocates sexual risk assessment of all adult and adolescent patients.
"Conscience Check and the IDC" is an opinion statement of NMCPHC-SHARP regarding appropriate care of the patient seeking a "conscience check".
Environmental Health Officer Orientation to SHARP is a PowerPoint briefing intended to help Navy EHOs become familiar with Navy policies and SHARP resources that may impact Navy Preventive Medicine efforts to prevent and control sexually transmitted infections.
Patient Confidentiality and Sexual Health - A Discussion for Health Care Providers SHARP Commentary which offers guidance on patient privacy and health care provider obligations to disclose to others certain information shared by a patient. It also addresses the myth about "discipline" as a cure for STDs.
SHARP-Adopted HP2010 Objectives: SHARP Program objectives, national and DoN baselines, and DoN targets.
Promotion of Sexual Health in Military Populations is a "cookbook" approach to evaluating your command's sexual health promotion performance and for organizing a sexual health campaign.
I Care About You - partner referral card. Couselors give this card to STI patients to pass to their sexual partners. Modify this card with your name and phone number. This MSWord file is set-up to print on business card stock.
Prevention Counseling Desk-top Assistant - quick reference for medical care provider when discussing sexual behavior risk reduction with patients. based on the concepts and skills taught in the 2 day NMCPHC SHARP course "HIV-STD Prevention Counseling".
Sexual Partner Services Desk-top Assistant- quick reference for medical care provider when working with patients to bring sexual partners to treatment. based on the concepts and skills taught in the NMCPHC course "Sexual Partner Sevices"
Targeted Condom Access for Disease and Pregnancy Prevention: Provides evidence-based information which supports targeted condom access efforts as an important component of a comprehensive prevention strategy. See also Condom Distribution as a Structural Intervention (CDC)
Prevention Counselor Evaluation Form and Sexual Partner Services Evaluation Form: Supervisors' tools to evaluate graduates of the SHARP CDC-developed course "Fundamentals of HIV-STD Prevention Counseling course" and the "Sexual Partner Services course". To validate skills, provide helpful feedback, and ensure quality in this task, we encourage supervisors/trainers to observe a counseling session. Use this form (and the SHARP HIV-STD Prevention Counseling Desktop Assistant from their Student Manual) to conduct and document your evaluation. When you are satisfied the counselor has demonstrated competence, sign and send the form to NMCPHC-HP-SHARP. Your subordinate will receive a SHARP lapel pin in recognition of your certification of their skills. We also encourage periodic supervisory evaluations to ensure continuous improvement and quality, as recommended by the CDC (MMWR 50;RR-19;page 7; November 9, 2001)."
Ready-to-use Presentations
SHARP Toolbox compact disk contains all the professional resources available on the SHARP website (and more). Just contact SHARP and ask!"
Condom Demonstration / condom use instructions (video)
INSPOT.org is a website from which sexual partners may be notified of their exposure to HIV or other STIs. Users send an anonymous "e-card" and recipients get information about their exposure, information about the disease and a list of local resources for testing and treatment.
HIV test? Ask your doctor at your local Navy medical treatment facility or visit a free HIV testing site in your area.
Need to see a doctor?Ask your doctor at your local Navy medical treatment facility or phone the CDC National STD Hotline (800) 227-8922 or (800) 342-2437, En Espanol (800) 344-7432 for toll-free referrals to free or low-cost clinics nationwide.
Talking to your partners about your HIV status. Here's some food for thought from "HIV and single?"
Content last reviewed on July 21, 2009.