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Overview
The Divisions of HIV/AIDS
Prevention (DHAP)
Other HIV/AIDS Prevention
Activities at CDC
CDC's HIV/AIDS Prevention
Strategy
HIV/AIDS Funding
Publications of Division of HIV/AIDS
Prevention Staff
Overview
As a part of its overall public health
mission, CDC provides leadership in helping
control the HIV/AIDS epidemic by working
with community, state, national, and
international partners in surveillance,
research, and prevention and evaluation
activities. These activities are critically
important, because CDC estimates that over
one million Americans are living with HIV,
and 24 to 27% of these people are
unaware of their HIV
infection.
In addition, the number of
people living with AIDS is increasing, as
effective new drug therapies keep
HIV-infected persons healthy longer and
dramatically reduce the death rate. CDC’s
programs work to improve treatment, care, and support
for persons living with HIV/AIDS and to build capacity
and infrastructure to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in
the United States and around the world.
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The Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention
(DHAP)
Most of CDC's HIV/AIDS
prevention efforts are the responsibility of
the Coordinating Center for Infectious
Diseases (CCID)
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP). Within this
Center are the two Divisions of
HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP), charged with
the mission of preventing HIV infection and
reducing the incidence of HIV-related
illness and death.
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The Division of HIV/AIDS
Prevention−Intervention Research and Support
(DHAP-IRS) provides national leadership and
support for HIV prevention research and the
development, implementation, and evaluation
of evidence-based HIV prevention programs
serving persons affected by, or at risk for,
HIV infection. The five branches that make
up DHAP-IRS are as follows:
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The Prevention Program Branch
develops, plans, implements, and manages
strategies and resources for HIV
prevention with state and local public
health departments, community-based
organizations, and other nongovernmental
organizations. Along with these
comprehensive public health and private
sector partners, the branch implements and
monitors programs, policies, and
activities in support of efforts to
prevent HIV/AIDS.
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The Capacity Building Branch works
with partner organizations to strengthen
and sustain the capabilities of the HIV
prevention workforce of the United States
and its territories. The branch does this
by ensuring the availability of
science-based and culturally appropriate
capacity-building assistance, which
includes technical assistance, training,
information, and technology transfer.
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The Program Evaluation Research
Branch evaluates the effectiveness,
costs, and impact of HIV prevention
interventions, strategies, policies, and
programs for improvement and
accountability; develops and enhances
evaluation methods and systems; and serves
as a resource for building evaluation
capacity.
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The Technical Information and
Communications Branch develops,
produces, and disseminates scientific,
statistical, visual, and technical
communications on HIV/AIDS for public and private providers,
persons at risk, and the general public.
Key projects include publications
development, satellite broadcasts, public
awareness campaigns, national conferences,
Web sites, exhibits, and CDC-Info, for HIV
prevention information.
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The Prevention Research Branch
conducts behavioral and operational
research to develop, test, and synthesize
sustainable interventions to prevent HIV
transmission.
- The Division of HIV/AIDS
Prevention−Surveillance and Epidemiology
(DHAP−SE) provides national leadership
for HIV prevention research and surveillance
and the development and testing of effective
biomedical interventions to reduce HIV
transmission and HIV disease progression in
the United States and internationally. The
purpose of these activities is to guide the
development, implementation, and evaluation
of evidence-based HIV prevention programs
serving persons affected by, or at risk for,
HIV infection. The five branches that make
up DHAP-SE are as follows:
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The Epidemiology Branch designs and
conducts epidemiologic, behavioral, and
biomedical intervention studies in the
United States and internationally to
determine risk factors and modes of
transmission of HIV infection and to
reduce HIV infection and disease
progression.
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The HIV Incidence and Case
Surveillance Branch conducts a
national program of surveillance and
research to monitor and characterize the
HIV/AIDS epidemic, and its determinants
and impact, to guide public health action
at federal, state, and local levels. This
program
includes surveillance of HIV infection and
AIDS in collaboration with state and local
health departments to provide
population-based data for research,
evaluation, and prevention at the
national, state, and local levels.
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The Behavioral and Clinical
Surveillance Branch implements
scientifically rigorous HIV research
studies and surveillance systems that meet
critical local, state, and national HIV
prevention needs for characterizing persons
who are at risk for HIV infection or who
have recently acquired HIV or have
HIV-related morbidities. The branch also
develops and demonstrates best practices
of laboratory and prevention technologies
to efficiently move them from development
into public health practice.
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The Laboratory Branch
supports DHAP’s goals in HIV prevention as
they pertain to clinical studies, viral
transmission, diagnosis and incidence,
intervention research with microbicides,
vaccines, and chemoprophylaxis as well as
investigates other human and zoonotic
retroviruses. The lab also develops new
methodologies for HIV detection,
quantification, isolation, evolution,
animal modeling, and surveillance, including
drug resistance.
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The Quantitative Sciences and Data
Management Branch. provides
statistical, prevention economics, and
informatics support for HIV/AIDS
scientific and programmatic activities
within the division.
View the organization chart for the
two Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
NCHHSTP has been rated Effective, the
highest rating a program can achieve, by
ExpectMore.gov. Programs rated Effective
set ambitious goals, achieve results, are
well-managed and improve efficiency.
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Other HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities at
CDC
In addition to the Divisions of HIV/AIDS
Prevention, the following CDC offices also
provide HIV prevention activities:
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Global AIDS Program (GAP) helps
resource-constrained countries prevent HIV
infection; improve treatment, care, and
support for people living with HIV; and
build capacity and infrastructure to
address the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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National Center for Infectious
Diseases' (NCID's)
Division of Healthcare
Quality Promotion (DHQP) provides
leadership in the detection, prevention,
and control of HIV infection transmission
in healthcare settings, supporting efforts
of the US Public Health Service, state and
local health departments, hospitals, and
professional organizations (worldwide).
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National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s
(NCCDPHP’s)
Division of Adolescent
and School Health supports state,
territorial and local education agencies
and national non governmental
organizations to build the capacity of
schools and youth-serving community-based
organizations to provide effective HIV
prevention education programs. The
Division of Reproductive Health
conducts epidemiologic, applied
behavioral, and operations research on the
prevention of HIV in women at risk for
both HIV and unintended pregnancy.
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The
National Center for
Environmental Health’s (NCEH's)
Division of Laboratory Sciences,
through its
Newborn Screening Branch,
operates a multicomponent quality
assurance program for laboratories testing
dried blood spots for HIV antibodies,
provides method development and analytical
services for the measurement of Zidovudine
and other antiretroviral drugs in
epidemiological studies, and provides
consultative services for emerging
concerns in laboratory quality assurance.
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The
National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) collects a variety
of HIV/AIDS-related information in many of
its data systems, including data on
HIV-related deaths, the use of health
services, and HIV knowledge and testing
behaviors.
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The
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) develops, implements, and evaluates
strategies to prevent the occupational
transmission of HIV, with special emphasis
on personal protective equipment and
engineering controls. NIOSH also
evaluates organizational and behavioral
factors that influence prevention
strategies.
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The Office of Workforce and Career
Development's Training and
Curriculum Services Division
strengthens and enhances the community
practice of HIV/AIDS prevention through
consultation on the development, delivery,
and evaluation of laboratory training.
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The National Center for Health
Marketing’s (NCHM’s) Division of
Public Health Partnerships improves
the quality of clinical and public health
laboratory testing for HIV/AIDS and other
related diseases. Laboratory quality
systems experts and experienced laboratory
managers in the Division work in
collaboration with laboratory scientists
and customers to identify weaknesses and
improve practices by providing direct
technical assistance; developing quality
assurance guidelines and standards; and
training.
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CDC's HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategy
Over the past
two decades, CDC’s HIV prevention
activities have focused on helping
uninfected persons at high risk for HIV
change and maintain behaviors to keep them
uninfected. The overarching force behind
CDC’s approach to the third decade of HIV
prevention is CDC’s initiative
Advancing HIV Prevention: New Strategies
for a Changing Epidemic. This
initiative is aimed at reducing
barriers to early diagnosis of HIV
infection and increasing access to quality
medical care, treatment, and ongoing
prevention services for those with a
diagnosis of HIV infection.
The initiative
emphasizes the use of proven public health
approaches to reduce the incidence and
spread of disease and capitalizes on new
rapid test technologies, interventions
that bring persons unaware of their HIV
status to HIV testing, and behavioral
interventions that provide prevention
skills to persons living with HIV.
The initiative consists of four key
strategies:
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Making HIV testing a routine part of
medical care
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Implementing new models for diagnosing HIV
infections outside medical settings
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Preventing new infections by working with
persons diagnosed with HIV and their
partners, as well as others at high risk
for HIV infection
- Further decreasing mother-to-child HIV
transmission
For more details about how CDC is
responding to the changing HIV/AIDS
epidemic, read the report
HIV Prevention in the Third Decade.
CDC's
Programs in Brief illustrates the scope of CDC's
HIV/AIDS activities, as well as the goals of
safer, healthier people here and around the
world. Each description includes a statement
of the HIV/AIDS public health issue or
problem, describes CDC's activities and
accomplishments, and identifies steps for
moving forward.
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HIV/AIDS Funding
In fiscal year 2004, about 88% of DHAP’s HIV-prevention funds were distributed
externally through cooperative agreements,
grants, and contracts—primarily with state
and local agencies, especially health
departments.
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Publications of Division of HIV/AIDS
Prevention Staff
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