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November 2004

Challenges

• The Advancing HIV Prevention (AHP) initiative calls for new approaches to HIV prevention, including partnering with a greater number and variety of organizations.
• Partnerships can be slow to get started and to produce demonstrable results.

Accomplishments

• To date, partnered with numerous federal and private entities to implement AHP strategies and approaches with regard to
  • financial, policy, and operational issues
  • perinatal HIV prevention
  • case management
  • rapid HIV testing
  • communications and training
• Federal partners include
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)/U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  • Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
  • Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • Office of Population Affairs (OPA)
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• Other partners include
  • American Academy of Emergency Medicine
  • American Academy of HIV Medicine
  • American College of Emergency Physicians
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • American Hospital Association
  • Health Plans and Managed Care Representatives
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
  • National Association of Community Health Centers
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • National Business Group on Health (formerly Washington Business Group on Health)
  • National Coalition for the Homeless
  • National HIV/AIDS Partnership, which includes partnership alliances with health care, multimedia, faith, business, and civic/social sectors
  • National Minority AIDS Council
  • Migrant Clinicians Network
  • Society for Academic Emergency Medicine