Nearly halfway through the five-year HIV prevention plan unveiled by the Bush administration in early 2001, all signs point to discouraging news about HIV infection rates and funding and prevention policies, AIDS activists and other critics say.
Ronald O. Valdiserri, MD, MPH, deputy director of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), answers AIDS Alerts questions about how well prevention interventions have been working in the United States and whether the nation is on its way to meet the Bush administrations goals, announced in 2001, of cutting new HIV infections in the United States by 50% from 40,000 to 20,000 in 2005. Valdiserri also discusses his speech at the 10th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held Feb. 10-14, 2003, in Boston, and addresses the use of abstinence-only prevention programs in this question-and-answer interview.
Twenty years into the HIV epidemic, behavioral scientists appear to have a pretty good idea of what type of education works in preventing the spread of HIV, particularly among high-risk populations.
Abstinence-only education was a by-product of the nations sweeping welfare reform law in the mid-1990s, but since its advent the movement has spread and become more controversial, public health advocates say.
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