Prevention

HIV Policy Watch articles on this issue

• Microbicide Research Suffers a Setback -- March 2007
• Advocates Prepare HIV/AIDS Agenda for 2007 Legislative and Budget Session -- December 2006
• Update on Key HIV/AIDS Bills -- July 2006
• Governor Schwarzenegger Signs FY 2006-07 Budget that Includes the First Appropriation for Methamphetamine Prevention -- July 2006
• Reorganization of the Department of Health Services -- May 2006
• House and Senate Pass Budget for FY 2007 -- AIDS Funding Levels Remain Uncertain -- May 2006
• Wide-Ranging Set of HIV/AIDS Bills to be Considered in California's 2006 Legislative Session -- March 2006

Press releases on this issue

• AIDS Advocates Applaud Governor Schwarzenegger for Signing Budget that Funds Critical HIV and AIDS Programs -- June 30, 2006
• Bush Budget Provides Increases for Some AIDS Programs But Falls Short of Meeting Needs of People Affected by HIV -- February 6, 2006
• AIDS Advocates Applaud Governor Schwarzenegger for Signing "Forward-Looking" Budget for HIV/AIDS -- July 26, 2005
• Indications that HIV Infection Rates Are Dropping in SF Suggest Effectiveness of City's HIV Prevention and Care Systems -- July 20, 2005

Links to other key organizations involved in this issue

• AIDS Alliance for Children Youth and Families
  AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families is a national non-profit membership organization. Established in 1994, AIDS Alliance gives voice to the needs of women, children, youth, and families living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
• AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)
  AVAC is an international community and consumer-based organization that provides analysis, policy advocacy, public education and community mobilization to accelerate the ethical development and global delivery of vaccines against HIV/AIDS.
• American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
  amfAR's mission is to prevent HIV infection and the disease and death associated with it and to protect the human rights of all people threatened by the epidemic of HIV/AIDS.
• Californians for Responsible Syringe Policy (CRSP)
  Californians for Responsible Syringe Policy (CRSP) is a political coalition of organizations that advocates for state policies and legislation that will reduce the spread of needle-related infections, including HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. 
• CDC National Prevention Information Network
  The CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S. reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB). NPIN produces, collects, catalogs, processes, stocks, and disseminates materials and information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB to organizations and people working in those disease fields in international, national, state, and local settings.
• Centers for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco
  The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) was established in 1986 to conduct local, national, and international research on methods to prevent HIV infection and to contribute to policy development related to the HIV epidemic at local, state, national, and international levels.
• International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
  A global non-profit organization working to speed the search for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS.
• National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)
  Founded in 1992, NASTAD is a non-profit national association of state health department HIV/AIDS program directors who have programmatic responsibility for administering HIV/AIDS health care, prevention, education, and supportive services programs funded by state and federal governments.
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the CDC leads the nation's public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats. CDC's HIV mission is to prevent HIV infection and reduce the incidence of HIV-related illness and death.