HIV and AIDS

This pamphlet provides general information about HIV/AIDS. The pamphlet states that Native Americans must learn about HIV and be prepared to protect future generations to mitigate the impact of this pandemic on their communities. Factors that can increase individuals' risks for HIV transmission include substance abuse and needle sharing for tattoos or body piercing. The pamphlet concludes that perhaps the most important steps that Native Americans can take to prevent HIV/AIDS in their communities are to learn about HIV/AIDS, share this information with their children, and get tested for HIV.

This report updates US Public Health Service recommendations for the management of health-care personnel (HCP) who have occupational exposure to blood and/or other body fluids that might contain HIV. The principles of exposure management remain unchanged, but recommended HIV postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) regimens and the duration of HIV follow-up testing for exposed personnel have been updated.

This report focuses on the social determinants of health (SDH) and its crossover to HIV rates in the United States from 2005-2009. It explains that SDH refers to the overlapping social structures and economic systems that are responsible for most health inequities. Thirteen tables break down rates of HIV diagnoses by indicators such as sex, age, area of residence, race, and transmission category.

This surveillance supplemental report complements the 2010 HIV Surveillance Report by presenting data on diagnoses of HIV infection during 2010 and persons living with a diagnosis of HIV infection at year-end 2009 for adults and adolescents aged 13 years and older residing in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the United States and Puerto Rico. The report presents the unadjusted number, estimated number, and estimated rate of diagnoses of HIV during 2010 and of persons living with a diagnosis of HIV as of December 31, 2009. Data are presented by MSA of residence at diagnosis.

This report summarizes results from the second National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System (NHBS) data collection cycle among injecting drug users (IDUs) – NHBS-IDU2– which was conducted during June–December 2009. The report provides unweighted data that can be used to describe the prevalence of HIV infection among IDUs and the percentage of IDUs reporting specific risk behaviors, HIV testing, and participation in prevention programs.

This report describes successful efforts by SisterLove, Inc., a community-based organization in Atlanta, Georgia, to develop, rigorously evaluate, and demonstrate the efficacy of Healthy Love, a 3-4–hour interactive, educational workshop, to reduce HIV- and STD-related risk behaviors among heterosexual black women. On the basis of the evaluation findings, CDC packaged the intervention materials for use by service provider organizations in their efforts to reduce HIV disparities that affect black women in metropolitan Atlanta, the South, and the United States.

The State HIV Prevention Progress Report (SPR) provides state-level data that show how states are doing in relation to key national goals. The report monitors HIV outcomes at the state population level but does not specifically evaluate CDC-funded activities. For 3 indicators (HIV testing, late-stage diagnosis, and death rate), the report includes data on all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

This report focuses on the social determinants of health (SDH) and its crossover to HIV rates in the United States. It explains that SDH refers to the overlapping social structures and economic systems that are responsible for most health inequities. Twelve tables break down rates of HIV diagnoses by indicators such as sex, age, area of residence, race, and transmission category. This report limits the data to adults older 18 and older to more accurately represent the population from which the SDH indicator variables were collected by the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS).

This report describes novel HIV screening programs at the Urban Health Plan (UHP), Inc. in New York City and the Interim Louisiana Hospital (ILH) emergency department in New Orleans. Both received startup funding from Gilead Sciences’ HIV on the Frontlines of Communities in the United States (FOCUS) program to implement routine HIV screening. Both programs identified previously undiagnosed HIV infections. Use of the new testing algorithm allowed the New Orleans program to identify antibody-negative acute infections in five (6%) of the 77 patients with newly diagnosed HIV.