Global Health Engagement

Pacific Partnership 2019 participates in community health engagement in Tacloban

Pacific Partnership 2019 exchanges create lasting bonds of friendship and trust

Global Health Engagement in action: Trinidad and Tobago

The U.S. Navy’s Global Health Engagement missions are inherently collaborative

Hospital ship USNS Comfort returns home after completing mission

This mission marked the sixth time the hospital ship has provided medical assistance in the region

Leaders take world view to enhance health readiness

Global engagements include missions in South, Central America

DHA IPM 18-020: Guidance for the Provision of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Persons at High Risk of Acquiring HIV Infection

This Defense Health Agency-Interim Procedures Memorandum (DHA-IPM), based on the authority of References (a) and (b), and in accordance with the guidance of References (c) through (f): • Establishes the Military Health System’s (MHS) guidance for the provision of HIV PrEP for persons at high risk of HIV acquisition (ACQ). • Describes the elements and resources required to implement an HIV PrEP program. • Establishes the indications for HIV PrEP, laboratory (lab) testing and monitoring, and prescribing of HIV PrEP. • Provides a link to an HIV PrEP toolkit for providers. • This DHA-IPM is effective immediately; it will be converted to a DHA-Procedural Instruction. This DHA-IPM will expire effective 12 months from the date of issue.

• Identification #: 18-020
• Date: 11/8/2018
• Type: DHA Interim Procedures Memorandum
• Topics: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment

ESSENCE Fact Sheet 2018

This fact sheet describes the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics, or ESSENCE. ESSENCE is a global and Military Health System (MHS) monitoring capability for early detection of imminent health threats impacting force readiness for active duty service members.

Navy entomologists team up to build disease detection capacity in Honduras

Leishmaniasis, malaria, dengue and Chagas disease are known to be present in Honduras

Bringing Comfort 2018

The USNS Comfort is a state-of-the-art hospital ship, and it’s scheduled to deploy to Central and South America for Continuing Promise 2018.

Sailors, Afghan medical professionals team up to improve medical care

The Kandahar Regional Military Hospital is run by Afghan military and civilian medical professionals

USNS Comfort to deploy to Central and South America

The ship’s crew will include more than 200 U.S. and partner nation military doctors, nurses and technicians

Navy Medicine global health team conducts trauma exchange in Vietnam

Sharing trauma management skills was the focus of this exchange

U.S. doctors save Italian patient hours from death

The patient had a fever, a very high heart rate and low oxygen levels

USNS Mercy returns home following Pacific Partnership 2018

Pacific Partnership 2018 included more than 800 military and civilian personnel from the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the United Kingdom

U.S. Navy, JMSDF participate in bilateral training exercise

The simulated disaster for the training exercise included a Japanese vessel colliding with a U.S. vessel

2019 to 2021 GEIS Strategy

This Strategy describes how GEIS will support infectious disease surveillance and outbreak response to enhance FHP decision making in the future operating environment. GEIS will achieve this end state through direct support to the six Geographic Combatant Commands (GCC) and the global DoD laboratory network that operates in all of their areas of ...