Preventing the spread of HIV requires a comprehensive strategy that includes effective, sustained health education and health promotion programs. The goal of these programs is to reduce the risk of individuals becoming infected with HIV or, if already infected, infecting others.
CDC Prevention Programs
Education and Outreach Materials
Featured Education and Outreach Links
CDC Prevention Programs
The CDC’s Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention maintains an HIV Prevention Programs section on its website, http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/prev_prog/index.htm, which details its current HIV programs and provides links to current, relevant publications. These programs include:
Additional information on the importance of capacity building in health prevention programs is available from CDC’s Prevention Capacity Building website, http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/cba/index.htm.
Education and Outreach Materials
The NPIN Education Materials Database is another source for materials related to prevention programs. The database, which is an extensive collection of HIV, STD, and TB-related prevention materials, can be searched for materials that will provide guidance on developing or enhancing your prevention program.
Featured Education and Outreach Links
Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services (CRCS) Implementation Manual, Spring 2006
A CDC-developed manual providing hands-on tools and guidance to help meet the day-to-day challenges of implementing CRCS interventions.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/prev_prog/CRCS/resources/CRCS_Manual/pdf/CRCS-Impl-Manual.pdf
Provisional Procedural Guidance for Community Based Organizations, April 2006
A CDC guide to interventions and strategies that can help community-based organizations provide services under the recommendations of Advancing HIV Prevention.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/prev_prog/AHP/resources/guidelines/pdf/pro_guidance.pdf
Essential Components of a Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent Domestic HIV, 2006
A CDC report outlining the components of effective comprehensive HIV prevention programs.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/reports/comp_hiv_prev/pdf/comp_hiv_prev.pdf
Education and Outreach in the Workplace (BRTA/LRTA)
Website of the CDC's Business Responds to AIDS and Labor Responds to AIDS (BRTA/LRTA) programs, which help large and small businesses and labor unions meet the challenges of HIV/AIDS in the workplace and the community.
http://www.hivatwork.org/index.htm
