Strengthening HIV Prevention an Surveillance Programs for Health Departments - The Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is applying for funds to support HIV prevention and surveillance activities to help improve the HIV care continuum in Maine. Funds will be used to support strategies and activities such as HIV testing, case surveillance, and data to care efforts with goals of increasing the percentage of Maine residents living with HIV who are aware of their infection, linked to and retained in HIV medical care, and virally suppressed. Using a U.S. CDC-established logic model, the Maine CDC will demonstrate measurable progress toward increasing knowledge of HIV status, implementing a comprehensive approach to treat people with diagnosed HIV infection rapidly and effectively to achieve viral suppression, preventing new HIV transmissions by increasing PrEP coverage, increasing nPEP services, and supporting HIV prevention activities, responding quickly to HIV clusters and outbreaks, conducting HIV surveillance activities, and supporting community engagement and HIV planning. Maine CDC’s Infectious Disease Prevention Program manages all prevention, surveillance, and care activities for HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis, and TB. Many of the same community-based organizations hold contracts for prevention, harm reduction, and care services. As such, the Program uses a whole person, syndemic approach to address social determinants of health, health equity, social and physical barriers to care.
