NEWS: HHS Awards $13.5 Million to Accelerate State and Local Planning Efforts for Ending the HIV Epidemic. Read more:
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors has been awarded $1.5 million per year from 2019 to 2023, based on the availability of resources, to enhance local health departments' capacity to end the epidemic in the 57 geographic areas. This effort, which uses CDC HIV prevention funds, will also support strategic communication and policy activities, partnerships, data analyses, and technical assistance.
in many important ways. Throughout the year, HHS agencies have sought input from leaders at multiple levels on the national framework — and on steps for moving it forward — during national conferences; webinars; meetings with national organizations; site visits with communities across the country; and ongoing engagement with CDC-funded partners and organizations.
Feedback from these activities has led to the integration of several key elements that will shape local planning.
Health departments will be required to engage members of local communities that are most heavily impacted by HIV, people with HIV, local prevention and care integrated planning bodies, local HIV service providers, new partners, and others. CDC plans to issue additional guidance to ensure robust and diverse community involvement in development of local plans, which will continue to be refined over time, by the community.
"Our goal is to ensure that the key pillars of HIV prevention and treatment are delivered in a manner planned by the community, in the community, and for the community," said CDC Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D."We have engaged and listened to advocates across the country who have provided valuable input into our overall national framework.
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