Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Virginia National HIV Behavioral Surveillance in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News MSA - The overall goal of the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) project is to strengthen the capacity of the Division of Disease Prevention (DDP) of the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) to monitor the HIV epidemic to better direct and evaluate HIV prevention efforts. The identified objectives monitor behaviors that place people at risk for HIV infection and include: Assessing HIV testing and treatment, HIV prevalence and awareness, trends in risk behaviors and awareness in high risk populations; guiding the development and strengthening of these efforts, informing policy makers regarding gaps in services and other prevention issues. To meet these objectives, VDH will collaborate with partners within the Virginia-Norfolk-Newport News-VA-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area (VNN-MSA) including community-based organizations to conduct the NHBS activities according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protocol. Project years 1 and 3 will focus on people who inject drugs (PWID), project years 2 and 5 will focus on men who have se with men (MSM), and project year 4 will focus on heterosexuals at high risk of HIV infection (HET). The approach includes five strategic activities that DDP will undertake: 1) preparation, 2) recruitment and data collection, 3) data management and dissemination, 4) quality assurance, and 5) collaboration. The expected key outcome through these efforts will be the improved monitoring of PWID, MSM, and HET at increased risk for acquiring HIV infection.
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