Programs & Expertise

National Resource Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention among Adolescents (Resource Center)

In order to achieve the three primary goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), reducing HIV infection, increasing access and improving care, and reducing HIV-related health disparities, the NHAS challenges stakeholders to respond in a more coordinated national response. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that youth ages 13-24 years have the highest proportion of undiagnosed HIV and that the rate of HIV diagnoses is increasing ¹, the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) responded to this challenge for a more coordinated national response with the funding opportunity announcement for a national resource center for HIV prevention among adolescents.

In December 2011-2014, the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center was awarded funding from OAH to develop a National Resource Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention among Adolescents (Resource Center). The goal of the Resource Center was to build national capacity in youth HIV prevention by providing a central, online location to access training, technical assistance, information exchange, and a resource library to remain current about published literature and evidence-based programs and practices.

For more information contact:
John Nelson, PhD, CPNP
Director, National Training
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center
973-972-6268
nelsonj3@sn.rutgers.edu

1. CDC.  HIV Surveillance United States — 1981–2008. MMWR 2011; 689-693.