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Federal Funding for HIV/AIDS: The FY 2005 Budget Request

This information sheet presents the federal budget request for domestic and global HIV/AIDS funding for fiscal year (FY) 2005. The budget request shows a $1.3 billion increase over 2004. The sheet explains the general funding categories and factors driving the budget increase. The fund categories are care, cash and housing assistance, prevention, research, and global. A chart of Federal funding for HIV/AIDS from FY 2003-2005 is provided.

Global AIDS Progarm (GAP)

This information sheet describes HHS/CDC's Global AIDS Program (GAP). Under he direction of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator’s Office, the CDC Global AIDS Program (GAP) is a partner in the unified U.S. Government (USG) effort to implement the President’s Emergency Plan for IDS Relief (the Emergency Plan).

DREAM: An Integrated Faith-Based Initiative to Treat HIV/AIDS in Mozambique: Case Study

This report describes the Drug Resources Enhancement Against AIDS and Malnutrition (DREAM) project in Mozambique. DREAM was created by the religious community of Sant’ Egidio in Rome. The main objective was to provide diagnosis and comprehensive treatment, prevention of perinatal transmission and of HIV transmission in the population through community care and home care services and mother and child prevention and care. The project uses a holistic approach by treating HIV with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) as well as treating malnutrition, TB, malaria, and STDs.

Normes de Quality des Soins de l'Infection a VIH: Outils d'Evaluation et d'Amelioration de la Qualite et d'Accrediation des Services de Sante

This report presents guidelines for assessing quality, improvement, and accreditation in caring for persons with HIV. The report explains the rationale behind establishing guidelines, their uses, the purpose of accreditation, and the key principles of the accreditation framework. It lists the major categories of standards for HIV care, describes how the model standards were selected, and explains how to begin using the standards in an HIV care site or organization. The minimum set of standards to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) and proposed standards are provided.

HIV Prevention in theThird Decade: Activities of CDC's Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention

This report focuses on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the US and the work of the CDC’s division of HIV/AIDS prevention. It provides a brief history of the accomplishments since 1981, discusses the current status of the epidemic in the US and how CDC is responding, using surveillance data reported to CDC from the 25 states with long-standing HIV reporting. It looks back on the successes of HIV/AIDS prevention and presents future plans.

MMWR: HIV Transmission Among Black Women: North Carolina, 2004

This report summarizes a study of 101 women who were newly diagnosed as HIV positive and controls to determine reasons for the behaviors that put them at risk for HIV infection. Poverty, partner risk behavior, and alcohol and drug use were among reasons for their behavior. Findings demonstrate the need for multiple approaches to reducing HIV infection among black women.

HIV/AIDS Among Hispanics: United States 2001-2005

This report provides information on the disproportionate rates of HIV infection and AIDS in Hispanics living in the US. The report is based on an analysis of HIV/AIDS cases diagnosed among Hispanic adults and adolescents living with HIV or AIDS in 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2005. HIV/AIDS cases include those with a diagnosis of HIV infection that have not progressed to AIDS, those with a diagnosis of HIV infection followed by a diagnosis of AIDS, and concurrent diagnoses of AIDS and HIV infection.
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