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CAHL Activities |
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| Currently, the Center is working in four
targeted areas:
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Improving Access to Immunizations for
Adolescents |
| The Center is working to ensure that adolescents have
access to immunizations. The Center's work will increase
understanding of legal and policy issues associated with both consent for
and financial access to immunization for the adolescent population. Over the past several years, new
vaccines have become available to prevent serious illnesses and conditions
in the adolescent population, including vaccines for several strains of
human papilloma virus (HPV),
to prevent both cervical cancer and genital warts, and a vaccine for
Hepatitis B, among others. In the future, additional vaccines are expected to become
available for sexually transmitted and communicable diseases such as herpes
simplex virus (HSV) and HIV. |
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Improving Access
to Health Care for Homeless and Disconnected Youth |
| The Center is working to ensure that young
people who are homeless or are disconnected from their families and other
major social institutions nevertheless have access to essential health care.
These youth are among the most vulnerable in society and often have health
care problems that threaten their own long term health and productivity as
well as the public health. |
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| Improving Access
to Essential HIV Services for Vulnerable Adolescents |
| The Center is working to protect the most
vulnerable adolescents who are especially at risk for lack of adequate
prevention services, becoming infected with HIV, and limited access to
treatment if infected. These include youth of color, particularly young
women of color, and young men who have sex with men (YMSM). They also
include GLBT youth, and youth who are homeless, in state custody, living in
the South, or living in poverty. |
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Maintaining
Consent and Confidentiality Protections for Adolescents |
| The Center is working to ensure the broadest
possible understanding of the rationale for providing consent and
confidentiality protections in adolescent health care and to assist health
care professionals, advocates, and policymakers to maintain these
protections that have been put in place over the past half century. |
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