The New Hampshire Public Health Association (NHPHA) is committed to a comprehensive approach to control HIV/AIDS including education, prevention, treatment and research. In serving this public health interest, governmental public health organizations should take a leadership role in funding and implementing these activities. These activities include:

• education to promote public understanding of HIV/AIDS;
• effective prevention education programs for at-risk populations with an emphasis on responsible individual behavior;
• promotion of strategies which have been proven effective including clean needle exchange, condom distribution programs, and universal precautions for health care workers and others specified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); and 
• Basic health and supportive services including the delivery of life-extending medications, which should be accessible to all persons living with HIV/AIDS through both private and public sector health providers.

Resources:

US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Comprehensive HIV Prevention. Essential Components of a Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent Domestic HIV, 2006. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv...mp_hiv_prev.pdf

US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Evolution of HIV/AIDS prevention programs--United States, 1981-2006.  http://www.cdc.gov/mmw...ml/mm5521a4.htm

US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Agency, A Guide To Primary Care For People With HIV/AIDS, 2004.  http://www.hab.hrsa.go...guide/index.htm

US Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  “Advancing HIV prevention: new strategies for a changing epidemic--United States, 2003. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 52:15 (April 18, 2003) 329-332. http://www.cdc.gov/mmw...ml/mm5215a1.htm

US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HBV, HCV, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 50: RR11 (June 29, 2001)1-42. http://www.cdc.gov/mmw...ml/rr5011a1.htm

US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health.  Interventions to Prevent HIV Risk Behaviors, NIH Consensus Statement Online, February 11-13, 1997.  http://consensus.nih.gov/1997 PreventHIVRisk104html.htm.