News and Events

in+care Campaign

The Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau and the National Quality Center (NQC) have teamed up on this national retention campaign to improve our efforts to help people living with HIV/AIDS stay in care or get into care. The campaign focuses on the simple idea that when patients stay in care they get the services that they need, leading to healthier people and stronger communities. For more information, visit in+care Campaign.

PrEP: A New Tool for HIV Prevention

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is a new HIV prevention method in which people who do not have HIV infection take a pill daily to reduce their risk of becoming infected. The pill contains medicines that prevent HIV from making new virus as it enters the body. In this way PrEP medicines can help keep the virus from establishing a permanent infection. Learn more about this new tool from the CDC's PrEP Fact Sheet.

nPEP: Nonoccupational Post Exposure Prophylaxis

The most effective means of preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is preventing exposure. The provision of antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV infection after unanticipated sexual or injection-drug--use exposure might be beneficial. Read the recommendations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Working Group on Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Annual Update Now Available

The Alabama Department of Public Health has monitored the HIV/AIDS epidemic within Alabama since the early 1980s. Information about the current HIV/AIDS epidemic is now available in the Integrated Epidemiological Profile. You may view this document, as well as other documents from ADPH and the CDC, at Publications and Reports.

HIV Prevention Network Group Meetings

To find out dates for the HIV Prevention Network Group in your area, visit HIV Program Coordinators and choose the region nearest you.

Grants and Proposal Opportunities

Visit our Services page and scroll to the bottom for information on funding opportunities available via the ADPH HIV/AIDS program.

HIV/AIDS Awareness Days

February 7	National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day The Strategic Leadership Council
March 10	National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day The National Women's Health Information Center U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health
March 20	National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC)
May 18	HIV Vaccine Awareness Day National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
May 19	National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day The Banyan Tree Project
June 8	National Caribbean-American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day The National Planning Committee
June 27	National HIV Testing Day National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA)
September 18	National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day The AIDS Institute
September 27	National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day The National Association of People with AIDS
October 15	National Latino AIDS Awareness Day The Latino Commission on AIDS (LCOA)
December 1	World AIDS Day World AIDS Campaign