Transmission Prevention

General Information

Barrier Products Articles from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
A listing of articles provided by the FDA for barrier products used in the transmission prevention of HIV including articles on condoms and gloves, as well as a discussion about latex allergies associated with some barrier products.

HIV and AIDS: Are You at Risk? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Provides basic information about HIV and AIDS, the behaviors that place people at risk for HIV and preventive measures everyone can take to prevent HIV.

HIV and Its Transmission (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
This fact sheet provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on the clearly identified ways HIV transmission occurs based medical, scientific, and public health research to counter false information or statements that are not supported by scientific findings continue to be shared widely through the Internet or popular press. En español

HIV/AIDS Prevention (National Library of Medicine, NIH)
A listing of prevention information resources collected by the National Library of Medicine’s Specialized Information Services. Resources are organized by category.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Today (National Prevention Information Network, CDC)
This resource created by the CDC’s National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) provides information on why prevention is important in the fight against HIV/AIDS, how individuals can prevent transmission, and activities the CDC is undertaking to help stop the transmission of HIV/AIDS.

How to Protect Yourself from AIDS (Food and Drug Administration)
This resource prepared for the general public provides a brief overview on different ways to prevent the transmission of HIV. En Español

Prevention – Women and HIV/AIDS (Office on Women’s Health)
This site provides basic prevention information, including the steps individuals can take to prevent themselves from getting HIV. The site also provides prevention information specific to women and their needs, as well as tips and guidance on how to talk to children about HIV.

Understanding HIV Prevention (PDF - 53 KB) (AIDSinfo)
Fact sheet providing information people with HIV need to know to avoid infecting others. En español (PDF - 56 KB)

Prevention Programs

Advancing HIV Prevention: New Strategies for a Changing Epidemic (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The Advancing HIV Prevention: New Strategies for a Changing Epidemic initiative aims to reduce barriers to early diagnosis of HIV-infection and increase access to quality medical care, treatment, and ongoing prevention services for those living with HIV. The goal of the program emphasizes HIV testing to help identify persons who are nto aware of their own HIV infection, and facilitate getting them into treatment and prevention services.

AIDS Community Demonstration Projects: A Successful Community-Level Intervention to Reduce HIV Risk (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Designed primarily for HIV prevention community planning groups and program planners in state and local health departments, community-based organizations, and other agencies, this program provides valuable information about a peer outreach model that was successful in motivating adoption of reduced risk practices among several populations.

Comprehensive HIV Prevention (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Comprehensive HIV prevention is a broad term that incorporates surveillance, research, prevention interventions and evaluation. This resource outlines CDC’s surveillance and research activities which are based on behavioral, laboratory and medical science and work to contain the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
This Web site provides information to CBOs and health departments that are or will be implementing CRCS (formerly known as Prevention Case Management or PCM) – an intensive, individual level, client-centered risk reduction intervention for people at high risk for HIV-infection or transmission.

HIV Cost Effectiveness (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Cost effectiveness has long been a criterion in setting HIV program priorities. The basic principle is straightforward: choose those options that provide the greatest outcome for the least cost.

Replicating Effective Programs Plus (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
This program organized by the CDC is dedicated to helping individuals identify and implement HIV/AIDS prevention programs that are tested, science-based behavioral interventions with demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in reducing risky behaviors.

Health Care Workers

HIV in Health Care Settings (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Health care personnel are at risk for occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Exposures occur through needlesticks or cuts from other sharp instruments contaminated with an infected patient's blood or through contact of the eye, nose, mouth, or skin with a patient's blood. This resource prepared by the CDC provides information about protecting healthcare workers and patients from transmission.

Health Care Worker Exposure Guidelines (AIDSinfo)
A Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled "Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis."

Specific Populations

AIDS and Pregnancy (National Library of Medicine - MedlinePlus, NIH) There are special concerns for women that are or think they are pregnant and have AIDS or HIV. This resource provides information on the challenges to and ways to prevent transmission from mother-to-child.

Delivery Options of HIV Positive Pregnant Women (PDF - 40 KB) (AIDSinfo)
Fact sheet with information about the delivery options available to an HIV-infected pregnant woman that may be able to prevent transmission of HIV to her baby. En español (PDF - 67 KB)

Drugs + HIV – Learn the Link (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
The Drugs + HIV – Learn the Link initiative communicates that behaviors associated with drug abuse are among the main factors in the spread of HIV infecting in the United States, and provides information for young people, parents and teachers, and the media.

HIV Prevention Among Injection Drug Users (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
This website provides access to materials and resources developed to assist HIV prevention providers working with IDUs and their sex partners. En español

HIV Positive Women and Their Babies After Birth (PDF - 53 KB) (AIDSinfo)
Fact sheet with information for women who are HIV positive and have recently given birth. Describes the steps an HIV positive pregnant woman can take to preserve her health and prevent transmission of HIV to her baby. En español (PDF - 73.38 KB)

Pregnancy and Childbirth (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
This resource outlines the special issues surround HIV/AIDS transmission prevention during pregnancy and childbirth. The goals of the program are to ensure that pregnant women and their health care providers discuss the importance of HIV testing during pregnancy; to make voluntary HIV testing available to pregnant women; and to ensure that HIV-infected women and HIV-exposed infants have access to appropriate prevention interventions.

Principles of HIV Prevention in Drug-Using Populations (National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH)
A research based guide which provides the basic overarching principles that characterize effective HIV/AIDS prevention in drug users. En español

Replicating Effective Programs Plus by Population (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
This program organized by the CDC is dedicated to helping individuals identify and implement HIV/AIDS prevention programs that are tested, science-based behavioral interventions with demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in reducing risky behaviors. This page shows which populations REP packages are available for.

Women and HIV/AIDS, Prevention (Office on Women's Health)
This resource provides prevention information specifically for women. The Office for Women's Health (OWH) was established in 1991 within the US Department of Health and Human Services. OWH coordinates the efforts of all the HHS agencies and office involved in women's health.

Last revised: 06/13/2008