A prevention response that fits America's epidemic: community perspectives on the status of HIV prevention in the United States.

ABSTRACT

HIV prevention services have succeeded in limiting HIV incidence in the United States but have not prevented HIV from becoming a devastating epidemic in the communities most affected. The National HIV/AIDS Strategy represents an important opportunity to improve domestic HIV prevention efforts and to begin to reduce HIV incidence over time. Elements that are essential to improving HIV incidence outcomes include greater transparency and accountability in use of HIV prevention funds; scaling up programming for those most at risk; fostering and evaluating community-based HIV prevention efforts; and looking beyond individual behavior change programming by putting a greater emphasis on structural, network, and policy interventions. To overcome years of stagnation on HIV prevention outcomes, we need a response characterized by accountability, appropriate targeting, and sufficient scale.