This study compared estimates of the prevalence of and risk factors for tobacco and nicotine use obtained from the 2018 Health Related Behaviors Survey and Periodic Health Assessment survey. The HRBS and the PHA are important Department of Defense sources of data on health behavior collected from U.S. military service members.

This study provides the first estimate of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis coverage in the U.S. military, defined as the proportion of the persons taking HIV PrEP out of the estimated number of persons who had indications for it, that is also comparable to U.S. civilian estimates. The population with indications for HIV PrEP was obtained from the ...

This Surveillance Snapshot provides the number of U.S. military active component service members prescribed HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis medication in 2023.

This Surveillance Snapshot presents a comparison of U.S. active component military and general population HIV incidence rates in 2021, the most recent year for which stratified U.S. data were available, using indirect standardization by sex, age, and race and ethnicity.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides an overview of the 2023-2024 mid-season analysis of influenza vaccine effectiveness against influenza hospitalizations among U.S. military active component service members.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates against ambulatory influenza among Department of Defense TRICARE beneficiaries.

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides an overview of the 2023-2024 mid-season analysis of influenza vaccine effectiveness against medically-attended ambulatory influenza infections among U.S. military active component service members.

This report is an update of a 2011 MSMR report that provides numbers, rates, and demographic characteristics of uterine fibroids as well as uterine fibroid-related health care among female service members in the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces.

This report summarizes 2003 to 2021 survey administration and content of the U.S. Marine Recruit Assessment Program, a cross-sectional, baseline survey of U.S. Marine recruits that is administered at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides the first summary of the demographic composition of active component Space Force service members, as of November 2023.

This Letter to the Editor is in response to the November 2023 MSMR article, “Update: Cold Weather Injuries Among the Active and Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forced, July 2018-June 2023.”

This is the monthly MSMR update of Reportable Medical Events documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System.