One CDC initiative is helping 12 States provide youth with information and skills needed to reduce tobacco use, increase physical activity, and improve dietary patterns. The CDC has established the STD Prevention Partnership to develop and implement strategies for reducing the incidence and impact of STDs, especially among those at highest risk, including adolescents and young adult women. Efforts include a chlamydia control program that provides screening and treatment in a variety of settings including family planning clinics, STD clinics, community health centers, and detention centers. Additionally, the CDC helps States and cities teach their youth how to avoid becoming infected with HIV and other STDs through such activities as training teachers in the development and delivery of effective education programs. Its Guidelines for School Health Programs To Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction focuses on education programs and tobacco-free policies for schools.
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Services include counseling, information, referrals to shelters and emergency services, and assistance in reporting abuse. As a result of FDA's revision of guidelines for clinical trials, pharmaceutical companies are now encouraged to include women in all phases of clinical trials in drug development programs. It is also recommended that they pay particular attention to factors that can affect drug disposition including phases of the menstrual cycle and use of hormone products such as the birth control pill. Another focus is identifying gender-related differences in drug pharmacokinetics, safety, and efficacy. Several have been translated into Spanish.