National HIV Prevention Conference

Summary/Highlights

Accelerating Progress: Prevent Infections. Strengthen Care. Reduce Disparities

National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020Overview of vision, goals, and key principles

Stressed the strategy’s focus on reaching the right people in the right places with the right practices, which include widespread HIV testing and linkage to care, full support for people living with HIV to remain engaged in care and adherent to treatment, universal viral suppression, and access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for those for whom it is appropriate and desired.

National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020

Released at NHPC

Designed to help organizations carefully focus work they may already be doing as well as identify new activities tailored to their organization’s mission and capacity. The Framework can be used to stimulate dialogue and action within organizations and across communities so that, together, we achieve an even bigger impact.

Released at the White House on World AIDS Day

FAP details 170 action items that those agencies will undertake to best leverage resources, capacity, and expertise as they work collaboratively to achieve the goals of the Strategy.

Example. The new “Know the Facts First” campaign addresses two of the key recommendations from the updated Strategy: developing and deploying evidence-based social marketing and education campaigns, and promoting age-appropriate HIV and STI prevention education.

HIV diagnoses decline almost 20 percent, but progress is unevenIncreases in some US populations but declines in othersATLANTA – Annual HIV diagnoses in the United States fell by 19 percent from 2005 to 2014, driven by dramatic and continuing declines over the decade among several populations including heterosexuals, people who inject drugs, and African Americans – with the steepest declines among black women. However, the same level of success was not seen among all gay and bisexual men.For gay and bisexual men, trends over the decade have varied by race and ethnicity. Among white gay and bisexual men, diagnoses dropped steadily, decreasing 18 percent. Diagnoses among Latino gay and bisexual men continued to rise and were up 24 percent. Diagnoses among black gay and bisexual men also increased (22 percent) between 2005 and 2014, but that increase has leveled off since 2010.A similar trend was seen among young black gay and bisexual men ages 13-24, who experienced a steep 87 percent increase in diagnoses between 2005 and 2014. Between 2010 and 2014, however, the trend has leveled off (with a 2 percent decline).

http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2015/nhpc-press-release-hiv-diagnoses.html

Dr. Tony Fauci, Director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who framed the end of the HIV/AIDS pandemic as an achievable goal in light of current science. He underscored the critical role that medications now play in both the HIV treatment and prevention continuums, concluding “The science has spoken. There can now be no excuse for inaction.”

Dr. Mindy Fullilove, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, who discussed some of the broader social determinants of health and proposed that the national HIV-response requires an urbanism-informed approach to public health.

Two awareness and education efforts designed to reduce new HIV infections by helping people take charge of their healthDoing It

 Comprehensive online HIV Risk Reduction Tool (pilot testing)

www.cdc.gov/doingit

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/hivrisk/