CDC’s Goals for HIV Prevention
1. Reduce the number of new HIV infections per year in the United States from an estimated 40,000 to 20,000 per year by 2005.
2. Through voluntary counseling and testing, increase the proportion of HIV-infected people in the United States who know they are infected from the current 70% to 95% by 2005.
3. Increase the proportion of HIV-infected people in the United States who are linked to appropriate care, prevention services, and treatment services from the current estimated 50% to 80% by 2005.
4. Reduce HIV transmission and improve HIV/AIDS care and support through partnership with resource-constrained countries.
Source: CDC’s prevention plan, September 2000 draft.
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