CDC provides leadership in preventing and controlling HIV infection. CDC works in collaboration with partners at community, state, national, and international levels applying well-integrated, multi-disciplinary programs of research, surveillance, risk factor and disease intervention, and evaluation. CDC achieves its mission by:

• Developing, implementing, and evaluating effective science-based prevention programs.
• Developing high quality research and translating relevant findings into prevention policy and programs.
• Creating and strengthening strategic relationships and networks with individuals and organizations.
• Strengthening and promoting surveillance activities and findings for program planning, public health response, and evaluation.

In Fiscal Year 2006, CDC received $651.1 million for domestic HIV/AIDS prevention activities conducted by the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. It is estimated that 14% of this total will be spent on surveillance activities; 6% on prevention research; 9% on capacity building/technical assistance efforts; 66% on intervention activities including testing programs and other prevention activities carried out by state, local and community-based organizations (CBOs); and 5% on program evaluation and policy development. An additional $68.6 million will be spent CDC-wide on efforts such as HIV school health education, safe motherhood, hemophilia programs, and preventing nosocomial transmission. The vast majority of CDC’s domestic HIV/AIDS funding is spent extramurally through cooperative agreements to private-sector, state and local health departments, education agencies, non-governmental organizations, and CBOs.