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CDC - NCHHSTP Newsroom

World AIDS Day 2012: Vital Signs

Primary Materials

• Press Release: More Than Half of Young HIV-Infected Americans Are Not Aware of Their Status

Related Materials

• Full Article: Vital Signs: HIV Among Youth – United States
• Downloadable graphics for media use/reprint
• Fact Sheet: Vital Signs: HIV Among Youth – Protecting a Generation
• Fact Sheet: Today’s Epidemic 

News Releases and Announcements

• National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, October 15, 2012
  
  Primary Materials
  • CDC Statement: National Latino AIDS Awareness Day - Many Communities, One Goal – Reversing the Latino HIV/AIDS Epidemic in America, by NCHHSTP Director Dr. Kevin Fenton
  • Declaración: Día Nacional Latino para la Concientización del SIDA - "Muchas comunidades, un objetivo: erradicar el VIH de la población latina", Por el Dr. Kevin Fenton
  Related Materials
  • Full Report: Geographic Differences in HIV Infection Among Hispanics or Latinos — 46 States and Puerto Rico, 2010
  • Fact Sheet: HIV and AIDS among Latinos 
  • Hoja Informativa: VIH y SIDA en Latinos 
  • Downloadable graphics for media use/reprint
• National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2012
  
  September 27th is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a prime opportunity to bring attention to the burden of HIV among gay and bisexual men and encourage HIV testing across the nation.
  
  MSM represent two percent of the U.S. population, yet account for more than half of both new HIV infections each year and Americans living with HIV. Since the beginning of the epidemic, nearly 350,000 gay and bisexual men with AIDS have died, and more than 8,000 still die each year.
  
  For your stories about National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, please find below various resources including a statement from Center Director, Dr. Kevin Fenton. You can also find the most recent HIV and AIDS statistics, as well as graphics about HIV among MSM.
  
  Primary Materials
  • CDC Statement: Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director, CDC National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention on National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
  Related Materials
  • Fact Sheet: HIV and AIDS among Gay and Bisexual Men 
  • Downloadable Graphics for media use/reprint
• Archive Previous Press Releases, Fact Sheets and Statements

Disease Information

• HIV/AIDS CDC's comprehensive Web site on HIV/AIDS
• STDs CDC’s site covering BV, Chlamydia, Herpes, HPV, Gonorrhea, PID, Syphilis and Trichomoniasis
• Tuberculosis CDC’s site offering a wide-range of information on TB
• Viral Hepatitis CDC’s site providing information on Hepatitis A, B, C, D and E

NCHHSTP Experts

• Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, FFPH: Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
• Gail Bolan, MD: Director, Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention Program
• RADM Kenneth G. Castro, MD: Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service; Director, Tuberculosis Elimination Program
• Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH: Director, HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
• John Ward, MD: Director, Viral Hepatitis Program
• Howell Wechsler, EdD, MPH: Director, Division of Adolescent and School Health

NCHHSTP

CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) is responsible for public health surveillance, prevention research, and programs to prevent and control HIV and AIDS, other STDs, viral hepatitis, and TB. NCHHSTP staff work in collaboration with governmental and nongovernmental partners at the community, state, national, and international levels.