Recommendations from a research consultation to address intervention strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention focused on African Americans.
Despite substantial federal resources spent on HIV prevention, research, treatment, and care, as well as the availability and dissemination of evidence-based behavioral interventions, the disparate impact of HIV on African Americans continues. In October 2007, 3 federal agencies convened 20 HIV/AIDS prevention researchers and care providers for a research consultation to focus on new intervention strategies and current effective intervention strategies that should be more widely disseminated to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African Americans. The consultants focused on 2 areas: (1) potential directions for HIV prevention interventions, defined to include behavioral, community, testing, service delivery, structural, biomedical, and other interventions; and (2) improved research methods and agency procedures to better support prevention research focused on African American communities.
Purcell
David W
DW
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, MS E-37, Atlanta GA 30333, USA. dpurcell@cdc.gov
McCree
Donna Hubbard
DH
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D015340:Epidemiologic Research Design; D005260:Female; D005380:Financing, Government; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult