CDC’s Overarching National Goal for HIV Prevention
Reduce the number of new HIV infections in the U.S. from an estimated 40,000 to 20,000 per year, focusing particularly on eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in new HIV infections.
- Decrease the number of persons at high risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV infection.
- Increase the proportion of HIV-infected people who know they are infected.
- Increase the proportion of HIV-infected people who receive prevention services and are linked to appropriate care and treatment.
- Strengthen the capacity nationwide to monitor the epidemic, develop and implement effective HIV prevention interventions and evaluate prevention programs.
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CDC provides leadership in preventing and controlling HIV infection. CDC works in collaboration with partners at community, state, national, and international levels applying well-integrated, multi-disciplinary programs of research, surveillance, risk factor and disease intervention, and evaluation. CDC achieves its mission by:
- Developing, implementing, and evaluating effective science-based prevention programs.
- Developing high quality research and translating relevant findings into prevention policy and programs.
- Creating and strengthening strategic relationships and networks with individuals and organizations.
- Strengthening and promoting surveillance activities and findings for program planning, public health response, and evaluation.
In Fiscal Year 2006, CDC received $651.1 million for domestic HIV/AIDS prevention activities conducted by the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. It is estimated that 14% of this total will be spent on surveillance activities; 6% on prevention research; 9% on capacity building/technical assistance efforts; 66% on intervention activities including testing programs and other prevention activities carried out by state, local and community-based organizations (CBOs); and 5% on program evaluation and policy development. An additional $68.6 million will be spent CDC-wide on efforts such as HIV school health education, safe motherhood, hemophilia programs, and preventing nosocomial transmission. The vast majority of CDC’s domestic HIV/AIDS funding is spent extramurally through cooperative agreements to private-sector, state and local health departments, education agencies, non-governmental organizations, and CBOs.
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