Sexual Health Resource Hub - Indian Country ECHO

National Strategies

Clinical Resources

Patient Education

Training & CE

Experts Are Sounding the Alarm

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), like HIV, hepatitis C, and syphilis, are on the rise nationwide. While there are effective treatments, diagnosis is often delayed. This results in the continued spread of infection in our communities.

However, clinicians have the power to effectively address STIs by learning how to screen and treat patients when appropriate.

To support clinicians in these efforts, Indian Country ECHO has compiled the following resources. If you have questions or would like free technical assistance or training brought to your clinic, email us at ECHO@npaihb.org.

National Strategies

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The Indigenous Syndemic Strategy: Weaving Together HIV, STI, and Viral Hepatitis Plans

STI National Strategic Plan (2021-2025)

Clinical Resources

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Policies & Procedures

Tribal Policy Kit & Advocacy Guide

Manual for Allowing Treatment of Beneficiaries

Minors' Access to STI Services

Statutes that Allow Health Services to be Provided to Ineligible Individuals at IHS Facilities

Treatment Guidelines & Tools

Evidence-Based Interventions to Prevent HIV and STDs in Indian Country

STI Treatment Guidelines (2021)

Toolkit for Express STI Services

STI Wall Chart

Printable wall chart with recommended and alternative regimens.

Healthy Native Youth

A "one stop shop" for tribal health advocates to access age-appropriate curricula and implementation tools.

Effective Interventions

Contact Tracing

The Toolkit for Technology-Based Partner Services

Partner Services Resources

Stories

Experts are Sounding the Alarm

The latest data released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is distressing, showing that from 2015-2019 STIs in America were skyrocketing. During this period, chlamydia increased by …

Rising Rates of Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that has been long nicknamed “The Great Pretender,” as its symptoms change over time and it can mimic many other diseases. […] Read …

Harm Reduction

“Your life is sacred, and you are beloved,” said Jessica Rienstra, a Case Manager for Indian Country ECHO. “Everyone who walks through the clinic doors should feel that way.” Jessica, a Registered Nurse, …

Project Red Talon

It has been said that when an Elder walks on, knowledge as vast as a library is lost. Although this is true, when Native youth are healthy, balanced, and well-tended …

Patient Education

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STI Testing Brochure Template

Use this template to promote STI testing at your facility.

Native Health Resources

Native Health Resources is a one-stop-shop to download/order Indigenous health education materials.

Safer Sex Pocketbooks @ NHR

Handy pocketbooks on STI types, prevention, and management available to download or ship for free.

Sexual Health PSAs

Videos on safer sex and syphilis prevention for communities and individuals.

We R Native

A comprehensive health resource for Native youth by Native youth that includes sexual health content.

STI PSAs

Videos created by the Great Plains Tribal Leaders' Health Board to raise STI and Syphilis awareness.

Training & CE

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National STD Curriculum

STI End-the-Syndemic (ETS) Informatics Response Series

Search: Special Initiative > STI

National Clinical Consultation Center

Indian Country ECHO Training Center

Find upcoming and past trainings, conferences, and gatherings.

Past ECHO Presentations

Find past ECHO presentations on sexually transmitted infections and sexual health.

	Jason Arion Butler is an enrolled member of the Ute Tribe of Fort Duchesne, Utah and is also part Mojave and Cherokee. He resides in Gibson, Idaho with his wife of 22 years, children, and grandchild who are all enrolled members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. He graduated from Idaho State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and earned his Master of Science in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University. He has spent the past 5+ years employed by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Tribal Health and Human Services Department, where he spent time serving as the Recovery Service Coordinator for the Four Directions Treatment Center, the manager for the Community Health Representative program, and recently accepted the position of Behavioral Health Manager. He strives to incorporate Native culture, traditions, morals, and values into the healthcare services provided to Native communities, implementing these practices into his work with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and advocating for the reconstruction of healthcare practices nationally. Today he says, “I am loving life and am extremely thankful to have found a career path I love.

	Carrie Sampson-Samuels is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation located in Eastern Oregon. Carrie has an early background in nursing providing patient care in long term and clinical care settings. Carrie then furthered her education in community health and health studies at Portland State University, later advancing her education in healthcare management at Oregon Health and Sciences University while serving in leadership and executive management for a Tribal health organization as the Community Health Director. Carrie has served Tribes from Oregon to Montana and the Treaty 7 Blackfoot Confederacy in Southern Alberta. As the Community Health Aide Project Director for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Carrie has provided leadership, advocacy and project management for expansion for the Behavioral Health Aide and Community Health Aide Program under the umbrella and direction of the Tribal Community Health Provider Project. This work has led to the expansion of Tribal Community Health Providers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Carrie is responsible for leading partnerships with the education institutions, key Tribal partner sites, contract experts and advisory workgroups. This includes development of education infrastructure, education curriculum, recruitment strategies, tools for integration of providers into tribal health organizations, and working with state partners to develop policy and infrastructure for provider reimbursement. Carrie manages and writes multiple grants that support all aspects of this work and provides technical assistance support to the Portland Area CHAP Certification Board. Carrie is the proud mother of 4 daughters and resides on a small ranch on her Tribal homelands.

	Dr. Liu is a generalist OB/GYN at Gallup Indian Medical Center. In addition to her medical degree, she holds a PhD in Health Policy. Among other publications, she served as the chief editor for the 2019 Oxford University Press book: “50 Studies Every Obstetrician and Gynecologist Should Know.” She has formal training in Quality Improvement processes through the Partners Clinical Process Improvement Leadership Program (CPIP), which she utilized to implement emergency contraception at Massachusetts General Hospital. During her six years at Gallup Indian Medical Center she has primary responsibility for preparing and reporting of metrics related to the delivery of obstetric care, and serves on the Continuing Medical Education committee.

	Dr. Hoover is from Chicago, where he grew up and went to medical school, at Rush University, on Chicago’s diverse West Side. He was trained in Urology at Boston Medical Center in Boston’s beautiful South End neighborhood. Dr. Hoover went on to pursue fellowship training in voiding dysfunction and laser prostate surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Hoover is a Board-Certified Urologist, by the American Board of Urology, having achieved this honor in 2018. Dr. Hoover has several peer-reviewed publications, including research studies and medical illustrations. His family is happy to call Gallup home since the end of 2017. In their free time they like to explore New Mexico’s wilderness and go camping. Now that their two girls are growing up, it’s also imperative that we catch Pokemon wherever we go.Dr. Hoover is the only Urologist in McKinley County, New Mexico, and in any of the surrounding counties– it’s just him between Albuquerque and Flagstaff. He’s happy to continue seeing established patients, and is accepting new patients from the entire region. Dr. Hoover believes in communication, candor, and compassion as essential tenets of patient care. Dr. Hoover is an expert in general Urology, male and female voiding dysfunction, kidney stones and kidney stone surgery, BPH and laser prostate surgery, erectile dysfunction, vasectomy, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, testicular cancer. Many of the procedures he do as a Urologist are done in the office including: cystoscopy, vasectomy, urodynamics, treatment foroveractive bladder, and many others. Please call/text or email and let him and his staff know how they can help you.

	Eric Wortmann, MD is the former Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility. Besides patient care, Eric has a deep passion for mentoring aspiring physicians and health care providers. He was the Education Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle as well as Adjunct Faculty for the US Army teaching Special Forces Medics. He has been a visiting professor of Emergency Medicine in Haiti and has worked in the Dominican Republic since 1989. Eric has a long-time passion as a mid and long-distance running coach. He has lived on Kauai for 30 years. Currently he divides his time between Northern Italy and Hawaii. Recently he was accepted into Doctors without Borders USA and is awaiting his first assignment.

	Corey Detlefs, MD, FACS, is the Trauma Outreach Director and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix