HIV Prevention

CDC's new plan faces mounting criticism from AIDS activists

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 24th, 2003

Workshops on safe sex in San Francisco's Mission District. HIV-prevention skits developed by teenagers in Chicago. A ministry that counsels black women in Baltimore, where syphilis rates are shockingly high.

All are among the programs that could lose funding under the new HIV prevention strategy from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which calls for increased attention to people who already carry the virus that causes AIDS.

CDC officials say they intend to pay for the new initiative by diverting $42 million that now goes to nonprofit groups like those in San Francisco, Chicago and Baltimore, whose work with uninfected people...

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