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
2008 Compendium of Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Interventions (updated May 2009) 
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.
