Programs & Best Practices
NEW! 2003 HIV/AIDS and Minorities: A Guide to Federal Programs ONLINE!
Advancing HIV Prevention: New Strategies for a Changing Epidemic --- United States, 2003
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5215a1.htm
HIV Counseling, Testing and Referral
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/ctr/default.htm
Counseling Protocols and Counselor Prompt Cards from the CDC Respect-2 Project
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/projects/respect-2/counseling.htm
Guidance on the Use of Rapid HIV Tests
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/testing.htm
Posting of "HIV Prevalence Trends in Selected Populations in the United States, Results from National Serosurveillance, 1993-1997"
HIV Testing Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities --- United States, 1999. MMWR
2001 November 30; 50(47):1054-8 is now available.
In Adobe PDF format:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5047.pdf
In HTML (web) format:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5047a3.htm
2001 HIV Prevention Plan for San Francisco, from the San Francisco HIV Prevention Planning Council. A three-year plan that includes a needs assessment, resource inventory, gap analysis, epidemiologic profile for San Francisco, strategies and evaluation.
www.dph.sf.ca.us/HIVPrevPlan/page2.htm
New Publication: HIV/AIDS and Minorities -- A Guide to Federal Programs, 2001
In Adobe Acrobat
HIV Prevention Science Agenda, NIH/Office of AIDS Research
http://www.nih.gov/od/oar/public/pubs/Prevention2001.pdf
CDC's HIV Prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005
Copy of Strategic Plan
"What We Have Learned ..." report that documents studies concerning sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. Forty-three projects in the following categories:
- Behavioral Surveillance and Risk Assessment Research
- Community-Based Formative and Intervention Research
- Small Group Formative and Intervention Research
- One-On-One Formative and Intervention Research
New from the CDC: "Taking Action to Combat Increases in STDs and HIV Risk Among Men who Have Sex with Men."
Description: Steps for action to address the disturbing increases in sexual risk
taking among men who sex with men (MSM).
Publications & Videos
Johns Hopkins University Offers a Useful Condom WebSite
Details
CDC Fact Sheet: Linking HIV Prevention Services and Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
http://www.cdc.gov/idu/substance.htm
In English and en español
Useful information on how to evaluate health information on the Internet
http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/2_10.htm
Basic HIV/AIDS Statistics including Cumulative AIDS Cases, Cases by Race/Ethnicity, Areas Reporting Most Cases, and more . . .
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats.htm
HIV/AIDS Surveillance by Race/Ethnicity (Updated through 2000)
Available in
HTML Version
PDF Version
Power Point Version
The Reports of the Surgeon General contains official reports, conference and workshop reports, and proceedings from the Office of the Surgeon General. The National Library of Medicine has digitized and made available the Reports of the Surgeon General for use by the public. (Official Reports from 1964-2000)
http://sgreports.nlm.nih.gov/NN/
Plan Estratégico de Prevención del VIH hasta 2005
http://www.cdc.gov/spanish/enfermedades/vih-sida.htm
What Community-Based Organizations Say About Factors that Affect HIV Prevention Programs
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/aboutdhap/perb/cbo.pdf
Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness
-- Revised!
Includes an Intervention Checklist to assess prevention programs.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/hivCompendium/hivcompendium.htm
New Publication: HIV/AIDS and Minorities -- A Guide to Federal Programs, 2001
In Adobe Acrobat
HIV Vaccines -- Discovery and development.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/daids/vaccine/default.htm
The Evidence that HIV Causes AIDS -- A factsheet from the National Institutes of Health
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/evidhiv.htm
How HIV Causes AIDS
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/howhiv.htm
HIV Infection and AIDS: An Overview
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/hivinf.htm
HIV/AIDS Statistics -- Worldwide and in the U.S.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/aidsstat.htm
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on HIV/AIDS
A new factsheet from the CDC that addresses questions, hoaxes
and rumors related to HIV and AIDS.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/faqs.htm
No Time to Lose: Getting More From HIV Prevention (2000), Institute of Medicine (IOM)
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309071372/html/index.html
New from the CDC: "Taking Action to Combat Increases in STDs and HIV Risk Among Men who Have Sex with Men."
Description: Steps for action to address the disturbing increases in sexual risk
taking among men who sex with men (MSM).