Eliminating HIV Prevention at CDC Would Harm Efforts to End the HIV Epidemic   

Eliminating the Division of HIV Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would come at a cost to human lives.  

Cutting off the funding and the technical assistance that state health departments and community-based providers across the country rely on for HIV education, HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, programs would have devastating health and economic consequences. The lifetime cost of treating HIV is at least $500,000 per person — avoidable costs with the prevention tools available today. 

Rather than ending HIV as an epidemic in our country, this decision would set us back decades at the expense of American lives and the public health of our communities.  

—Colleen Kelley, MD, MPH, FIDSA — Chair, HIV Medicine Association  

The HIV Medicine Association is the professional home for more than 6,000 physicians, scientists and other health care professionals dedicated to the field of HIV/AIDS. HIVMA is a community of health care professionals who advance a comprehensive and humane response to the HIV pandemic, informed by science and social justice. HIVMA is part of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. For more information, visit hivma.org.