Kansas Infertility Prevention Project
"STD related infertility can be prevented. It must be prevented. We must do everything we can to prevent (the anguish) Americans feel when they find out a preventable disease left them infertile." -Dr. Jocelyn Elders, 1993
OverviewCDC, in collaboration with the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), supports a national Infertility Prevention Program (IPP) that funds chlamydia screening and treatment services for sexually active women attending family planning, STD, and other women’s healthcare clinics. This program has shown that routine screening of women can reduce chlamydia prevalence and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) incidence in women. From its start in 1988 as a demonstration project in DHHS Region X, IPP has expanded to include all ten federal DHHS regions. Within each region, representatives of state STD Programs, Family Planning Programs, women’s health programs, and state public health laboratory programs meet several times a year as Regional Advisory Committees with a common goal of detecting and treating women and men with chlamydia and gonorrhea infections. The KIPP is part of the Region VII IPP, which also includes the states of Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri. The Region VII IPP has been in place since 1992, and meets at least twice a year to discuss the enhancement and expansion of programs to reduce the prevalence of chlamydia and gonorrhea infections. |
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Current KIPP members include:
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Derek Coppedge Kay Herman Ruth Werner |
Jennifer VandeVelde Greg Stephenson |
Resources
- Blood Packaging Guide (.pdf)
- Chlamydia & Gonorrhea Packaging Guide (.pdf)
- Laboratory Quick Reference Guide
- Requisition for Laboratory Supplies (.pdf)
- Universal Requisition Form Instructional Guide (.pdf)