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 HIV-infected persons 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.
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:
-
Making HIV testing a routine part of medical care
-
Implementing new models for diagnosing HIV infections outside medical settings
-
Preventing new infections by working with HIV-infected persons 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.
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