HIV prevention community planning and communities of color: do resources track the epidemic?

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning the manner in which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention distributes funds for HIV prevention are examined, focusing on how well distributions match communities of need as they are defined by race and ethnicity. Topics include budgets for health education and for counseling and testing as they relate to Native Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, African-Americans, the Latin population, and the white population; and the 1998 budget, which totaled more than $261 mil.

United States, Statistical Data Included, Finance, Services, HIV patients, United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Model-based allocation of HIV-prevention resources

Article Abstract:

A model-based allocation of HIV-prevention resources attempts to allocate resources among separate at-risk target groups. The model estimates a need score for each group. This score is based on factors such as the size of the population and prevalence within the population. The outcome measure is the number of infections averted by the program. The model fails to take into account some pragmatic and theoretical considerations about the targeted population. Researchers at the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health AIDS program developed the model.

Models, Resource allocation

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Cost-effectiveness analysis and HIV prevention community planning

Article Abstract:

Community planning and cost effectiveness analysis offer a viable approach to HIV prevention. HIV prevention community planning groups aim to improve the effectiveness of HIV prevention initiatives by enhancing the scientific base, community relevance and population or risk-based focus of such programs. Some of the major tasks of community planning groups, which are composed of representatives of health department personnel, behavioral/social scientists, epidemiologists and patients, among others, are the development of comprehensive HIV prevention programs, assessment and prioritization of necessary interventions and identification of science-based preventive strategies to address such interventions.

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