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The STAR Program at SUNY Downstate Launches “Faster Than” Campaign to Promote Testing for Hepatitis C
August 16, 2020 9:09 pmThe STAR Program at SUNY Downstate Launches “Faster Than” Campaign to Promote Testing for Hepatitis C
STAR Program receives a grant to expand our mission to train health professionals for opioid addiction treatment.
January 13, 2020 11:17 amNew York City seeing more overdose deaths involving heroin. Suny Downstate is receiving a 450- thousand-dollar grant to expand its STAR Program which helps train health professionals for opioid addiction treatment. ##... View Article
STAR Program Services Expand to Brookdale Hospital
October 23, 2018 11:13 amSUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER AND BROOKDALE HOSPITAL EXPAND STAR PROGRAM SERVICES TO INCREASE COMPREHENSIVE CARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV... View Article
The Parenting Journey Never Stops
May 14, 2018 10:33 amRaising four children as a single mom should earn you the Doctorate of Motherhood degree. But parenting doesn’t work that... View Article
STAR Program Profile: Jean Richard
May 8, 2018 10:16 amJean Richard is a Community Health Worker with the STAR Program’s Supportive Counseling Program It’s a road Jean Richard has traveled himself, having... View Article
STAR Director Dr. Jack DeHovitz chairs training advisory committee for virus study
May 4, 2018 10:27 amUB receives $1.1 million to improve study of Zika, dengue, HIV, hepatitis and other viruses in Jamaica SUNY researchers will... View Article
SUNY Downstate Medicine Department Chair Dr. Moro Salifu receives prestigious Master recognition from the American College of Physicians
May 4, 2018 9:56 amDr. Salifu is the only State University of New York Academic Medical Center physician, and only Brooklyn physician to be... View Article
National Coalition of STD Directors respond to banned words at the CDC
December 18, 2017 4:01 pmWe were disturbed to read the Washington Post article, “CDC gets list of forbidden words: Fetus, transgender, diversity” which reports a... View Article
Policy to ensure justice and services for transgender and gender nonconforming New Yorkers
November 27, 2017 12:44 pmCooperating agencies unveiled a policy brief November 20, 2017, the Transgender Day of Remembrance, on the steps of New York... View Article