HIV/AIDS Education and Outreach

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

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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:

• Act Against AIDS: New National Domestic HIV/AIDS Campaign
• Safe in the City
• Advancing HIV Prevention
• HIV Cost Effectiveness
• Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services (CRCS) (formerly Prevention Case Management)
• HIV Prevention Among Injection Drug Users
• Replicating Effective Programs Plus
• Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) (science-based, community, group, and individual-level HIV prevention interventions)

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.

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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, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB-related prevention materials, can be searched for materials that will provide guidance on developing or enhancing your prevention program.

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Featured Education and Outreach Links

DeafMD.org—Health Education in American Sign Language
From DeafMD.org

United in Battling HIV/AIDS: A Guide to Understanding How Faith Communities Can Make a Difference (PDF)
From NASTAD

Building Blocks to Peer Program Success: A Toolkit for Developing HIV Peer Programs
From the PEER Center

Building Blocks to Peer Success Peer Training Toolkit
From the PEER Center

Condom Distribution as a Structural Level Intervention
From CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

2009 Compendium of Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Interventions
From CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

Education and Outreach in the Workplace (BRTA/LRTA)
Web site 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.