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Advancing HIV Prevention Demonstration Projects: New Strategies for a Changing Epidemic
- Source :
- Public Health Reports. 123:5-15
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2008.
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Abstract
- New approaches are needed to fight the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, now in its third decade in the United States. The epidemiology of HIV in the past decades illustrates these new challenges. Annual incident cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) declined 38% and deaths from AIDs declined 63% between 1995 and 1998, due primarily to the introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART).1,2 However, the annual number of incident AIDS cases and deaths remained stable from 1999 through 2006, and the estimated number of new HIV infections occurring annually in the U.S. has remained stable since 2000.1,3 This article seeks to put the current emphasis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on HIV testing programs in the context of the epidemiology of the U.S. HIV epidemic; to describe major CDC prevention initiatives that involve HIV testing, focusing on the Advancing HIV Prevention (AHP) initiative;4 and to describe what has been learned in the first five years since new strategies for preventing HIV infection were outlined in the AHP initiative.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
HIV Infections
Context (language use)
medicine.disease_cause
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
Sida
biology
business.industry
Incidence
Public health
Incidence (epidemiology)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
AIDS Serodiagnosis
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Virology
United States
Family medicine
Public Health
Viral disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S
business
Perspectives
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14682877 and 00333549
- Volume :
- 123
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Public Health Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....45d7b63190baab1f68c53ffab87240d6