Comprehensive High-Impact HIV Prevention Projects for Community-Based Organizations CDC-RFA-PS15-1502
Comprehensive High-Impact HIV Prevention
Projects for Community-Based Organizations
CDC-RFA-PS15-1502
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the availability of fiscal year 2015 funds for a cooperative agreement program for community-based organizations (CBOs) to
develop and implement High-Impact Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Prevention
Programs in the following two categories:
Category A: HIV prevention services for members of racial/ethnic minority communities. These
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In 2011, an estimated 49,273 people were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States.
Overall, an estimated 1,155,792 people in the United States have been diagnosed with HIV and
AIDS.3 HIV and AIDS disproportionately affects some populations, especially persons identified as
gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) of all races and ethnicities. In
2010, the estimated number of new HIV infections among MSM was 29,800, a 12% increase
from the 26,700 new infections among MSM in 2008.2
In addition, despite ongoing targeted HIV prevention programs, racial and ethnic minority
groups continue to experience the most severe burden of HIV. Blacks/African Americans and
Hispanics/Latinos represent a small percentage of the U.S. population, but accounted for 44%
and 21% respectively of new infections in 2010.1,2
Toward the successful implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, CDC’s Division of
HIV/AIDS Prevention works in partnership with other federal operating divisions; state, tribal,
local, and territorial health departments; community-based organizations; health care
organizations; and other stakeholders to better coordinate and implement state and local
responses to HIV and AIDS. Building individual competencies, organizational capacities, and
supportive structural environments among these partners are key strategies for the effective
promotion, delivery, and sustainability of HIV prevention programs and services, particularly for
people living with and at greatest risk of HIV infection including African Americans/Blacks;
Latinos/Hispanics; all races/ethnicities of gay, bisexual, and other MSM; IDUs; and transgender
persons.
Strategies and Activities
Project Overview
Provide an overview describing how the proposed program complements
the jurisdiction’s Comprehensive HIV Prevention Plan and meets the needs of the target population
Formalized Collaborations
Establish service agreements with medical care providers and prevention and essential support services providers to maximize reach, increase coordination and collaboration, and support provision of comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment services and prevention and essential support services providers
Program Promotion, Outreach, and Recruitment
Promote the program to the target population
Conduct outreach to recruit the target population into the program
Targeted HIV Testing
Conduct HIV testing among persons at high risk for HIV infection
Complementary Services
o Conduct Couples HIV Testing and Counseling (CHTC)
o Conduct integrated screening for STDs, viral hepatitis, and TB
Comprehensive HIV Prevention with HIV-positive Persons
Linkage to HIV Medical Care
Link newly diagnosed HIV-positive persons to HIV medical care
Re-engage previously diagnosed, out-of-care HIV-positive persons in HIV
medical care
Promote retention of HIV-positive persons in HIV medical care
Promote use of antiretroviral therapy (ART)
Navigation and Prevention and Essential Support Services
Train navigators (e.g., community health workers, peer advocates,
outreach workers) to provide referrals to (or provide) prevention and
essential support services
Refer HIV-positive persons to required and recommended prevention and
essential support services (e.g., medication adherence support, Partner
Services [PS], High-Impact Prevention [HIP] behavioral intervention, STD screening, housing services) or provide these services
Comprehensive HIV Prevention with High-risk HIV-negative (HRN) Persons
Navigation and Prevention and Essential Support Services
Train navigators (e.g., community health workers, peer advocates,
outreach workers) to provide referrals to (or provide) prevention and essential support services
Refer HRN persons to required and recommended prevention and
essential support service providers (e.g., STD screening, housing services, PrEP and/or nPEP, as appropriate) or provide these services
Condom Distribution
Offer condoms to HIV-positive and HRN persons
HIV and Organizational Planning
Develop or revise an organizational strategic plan that incorporates the proposed program to provide a continuum of HIV prevention and care services
Participate in the jurisdiction’s HIV planning process
Short-Term Outcomes
Long Term Outcomes
Targeted HIV Testing
Increase in number of target
population members tested for
HIV
Increase in HIV-positive persons
who are aware of their infection
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