Open AccessCan Increasing Awareness of HIV Seropositivity Reduce Infections by 50% in the United States?
Author(s) -
David R. Holtgrave,
Steven D. Pinkerton
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0b013e31802ea4dd
Subject(s) - serostatus , medicine , psychological intervention , transmission (telecommunications) , environmental health , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , disease control , immunology , viral load , psychiatry , electrical engineering , engineering
In 2003, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced an HIV prevention initiative that emphasized increasing the proportion of persons living with HIV who are aware of their positive serostatus. Previously, CDC set a national HIV prevention goal of reducing new infections by 50% by 2005, with increasing serostatus awareness a central goal. The objectives of this article are to examine the national epidemiologic consequences of increasing serostatus awareness and the important question of how far increasing awareness could lead toward achieving CDC's goal of a 50% reduction in incident infections.