CDC Updates Compendium of Effective HIV Prevention Techniques

In May 2006, Ranking Member Waxman wrote to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ask why the agency had failed to update the Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness, first released in 1999. The Compendium describes programs identified by CDC’s scientific staffs as having been shown to reduce risk behaviors and HIV transmission and is used by health professionals in the field to maximize the effectiveness of their prevention efforts. In the May 2006 letter and follow-up correspondence, Mr. Waxman expressed concern that even though CDC scientists had identified additional effective programs in the seven years since the Compendium was first issued, the CDC had not released an update.

In response to Mr. Waxman’s inquiries, CDC posted a full update to the Compendium on its website in November 2007.