HIV - AIDS Prevention

HIV Prevention Methods & Subjects

We invite you to explore our database for information about HIV Prevention-- the best way to find it is by using our search feature.
The following list represents prevention methods and topics that may be useful search terms:

Abstinence
Being faithful
Behavior (Behaviour)
Barrier methods
Condoms
Disclosure
Female condoms
HIV testing (adding in the term prevention)
Male circumcision
Microbicides
Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP)
Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
Serosorting
Sexual negotiation
Vaccine

Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CDC: HIV/AIDS: Featured Items; Daily News; What's New?; Topics; Resources by Format; Search for HIV/AIDS Content...and more!
CDC Underscores Current Recommendation for Preventing HIV Transmission - CDC Statement - February 1, 2008: An article recently published by Switzerland’s Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS states that HIV-positive individuals on effective antiretroviral therapy are not at risk for transmitting HIV to their sexual partners under certain circumstances. The Commission acknowledges that there are no scientific data that the risk of transmission in these circumstances is zero. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underscores its recommendation that people living with HIV who are sexually active use condoms consistently and correctly with all sex partners. - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; Contact: CDC National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention: 404-639-8895
CDC Responds to HIV/AIDS: As a part of its overall public health mission, CDC provides leadership in helping control the HIV/AIDS epidemic by working with community, state, national, and international partners in surveillance, research, and prevention and evaluation activities. These activities are critically important, because CDC estimates that over one million Americans are living with HIV, and 24 to 27% of these people are unaware of their HIV infection.
CDC National Prevention Information Network: Prevention works. In the United States, investments in HIV prevention have paid off. The rate of new HIV infections has slowed from more than 150,000 in the mid-1980s to around 40,000 per year now. Despite the substantial decline, the rate of new infections is still unacceptably high, making prevention as important as ever.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis Project - November 2007: The HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis (PRS) project was initiated by the Prevention Research Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) at CDC in 1996 to systematically review and summarize HIV behavioral prevention research literature. The goal of PRS is to translate scientific evidence from the research literature into practical information that can be used by prevention providers, state and local health departments throughout the United States, and HIV prevention researchers.
HIV Prevention Strategic Plan: Extended Through 2010 - October 2007: This plan extends the HIV Prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005 (2001 Plan) published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2001. The short-term goal, milestones, and accompanying objectives are based on general and specific recommendations from the CDC and HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment (CHAC), formerly known as the Advisory Committee for HIV and STD Prevention. The HIV Prevention Strategic Plan: Extended Through 2010 ( Extended Plan), which will serve as CDC’s strategic guide for HIV prevention through 2010, includes a short-term goal of reducing new HIV infections by 5 percent per year or at least 10 percent by the end of 2010.
Heat Sterilization of Dental Handpieces: From the US Centers For Disease Control, 1993
HIV Transmission in Household Settings: From the US Centers For Disease Control, 1993
Avoiding HIV For People Over 50: From the US Centers For Disease Control, 1994

Some of the material below is a few years old, but most is still useful and relevant.

Safer Sex

The SafeR Sex Knowledge Base: Recommendations from the National Institutes of Health. It is fairly scholastic in tone. NOTE: This page contains explicit material. - 1994.
Are You At Risk? (PDF): A worksheet to help you evaluate your risk of getting HIV. This is a non-technical publication. (Centers for Disease Control) - 1998.
Get High, Get Stupid, Get AIDS
: Enlivened with comic book style drawings, this colorful fold-out leaflet takes a serious look at why getting high on drugs can cause risky behavior and why AIDS is another way drugs can kill.

Abstinence

Abstinence: 500 articles retrieved from the AEGiS database

Condoms

The Latex Condom: Recent Advances, Future Directions - an online, eight chapter book on condoms.: Family Health International - 2005
Opinion: Reasons to Have Confidence in Condoms: Family Health International - 2005; Note: The following is a condensed version of a chapter appearing in FHI's recently published The Latex Condom -- Recent Advances, Future Directions.
The Latex Condom: Recent Advances, Future Directions: Chapter 7: The Development of Non-latex Condoms: Family Health International - 2005
Do Condom Characteristics Influence Use?: Family Health International - 2005
Condoms: Barriers to Bad News: FDA Consumers - March/April 1998
Using Condoms: A U.S. government pamphlet - 1996.
Statement from Helene Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., Director, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention - Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Dear Colleague Letter regarding the use of Nonoxynol-9 - August, 2000
Statement from Robert Janssen, M.D., Director, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Judith N. Wasserheit, M.D., Division of STD Prevention - National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention: Dear Colleague Letter regarding the use of Nonoxynol-9 - June 12, 2001
Nonoxynol-9: For years, the widely used spermicide nonoxynol-9 (N-9) has been touted for its potential ability to stop HIV as well as other sexually transmitted diseases. Recent studies show that N-9 alone is not an effective means to prevent infection with HIV or cervical gonorrhea and chlamydia. MMWR Weekly, May 10, 2002 / 51(18);389-392

For Parents and Counselors

Living and Learning in a World with HIV/AIDS: HIV/AIDS At School: UNESCO AIDS Resource Kit - 2004; Download .pdf document of this document.
Family Health International: YouthNet: YouthLens is a series of research briefs that summarize the latest information on key issues regarding reproductive health and HIV prevention among youth ages 10 to 24.; Available in English, Spanish and French.
What to Say (PDF): Deciding what to say to children and teenagers about HIV infection and AIDS. (Centers for Disease Control) - 1998.

Prevention resources

Avert.org: How to prevent HIV transmission: an overview, the ABC, using condoms, injecting drug users, PMTCT, and prevention for health workers.
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, UCSF: Comprehensive and reliable information on HIV/AIDS prevention from the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), University of California San Francisco.
HIV InSite Prevention Page: HIV InSite's main page for prevention resources. Includes Prevention Basics, Program Tools, Prevention Literature, Analysis, Links, and Editor's Picks.
HIV Prevention Trials Network: The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) is a worldwide collaborative clinical trials network that develops and tests the safety and efficacy of primarily non-vaccine interventions designed to prevent the transmission of HIV.
National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers: The National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers (PTCs) is a CDC-funded group of regional centers created in partnership with health departments and universities. The PTCs are dedicated to increasing the knowledge and skills of health professionals in the areas of sexual and reproductive health. The National Network provides health professionals with a spectrum of state-of-the-art educational opportunities including experiential learning with an emphasis on prevention.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institues of Health (NIH) - HIV/AIDS Prevention: Non-vaccine prevention strategies are critical to curbing the continued spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Research-based prevention strategies have already contributed to the maintenance of low infection rates in a number of settings and to declining HIV epidemics in specific populations around the world. In resource-constrained countries, in particular, non-vaccine prevention strategies are important for reducing new infections where there is limited access to health care and antiretroviral drugs.

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