Prevention

“On World AIDS Day and throughout the year, we stand with our friends and partners around the world in the urgent struggle to fight this virus, comfort those who are affected, and save lives.”

- President George W. Bush
World AIDS Day
December 1, 2006

Effective prevention is a prerequisite to significant progress against HIV/AIDS; if the number of people newly infected continues to increase, the growing number of people in need of treatment and care - and the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children - will overwhelm the world's ability to respond and to sustain its response.

The Emergency Plan supports the most comprehensive, evidence-based prevention program in the world, targeting interventions based on the epidemiology of HIV infection in each country. PEPFAR supports prevention activities that focus on sexual transmission, mother-to-child transmission, the transmission of HIV through unsafe blood and medical injections, and greater HIV awareness through counseling and testing. The Emergency Plan will integrate new prevention methods and technologies as evidence is accumulated and normative guidance is provided.

Five-Year Goal in the 15 Focus Countries:

• Support prevention of 7 million infections by 2010.

Progress Achieved through September 30, 2007:

• Supported prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services for women during more than 10 million pregnancies (cumulative for fiscal years 2004 through 2007).
• Supported antiretroviral prophylaxis for HIV-positive women during more than 827,000 pregnancies (cumulative for fiscal years 2004 through 2007).
• Supported prevention of an estimated 157,000 infant infections (cumulative for fiscal years 2004 through 2007).  

• Supported community outreach activities to nearly 61.5 million people to prevent sexual transmission.
• Supported training or retraining of nearly 520,000 people in provision of prevention services.
• Supported approximately 4,863 service outlets for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
• Supported approximately 3,848 service outlets for blood safety.