Federal Implementation Plan

This document is a companion to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States and presents the Administration’s views on the measures it will use to assess progress toward meeting the Strategy’s goals, and includes immediate, short-term, and longer-term Federal actions that are intended to move the National toward meeting the President’s goals.

The job of implementing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, however, does not fall to the Federal Government alone, nor should it. It will be the collective responsibility of all members of society. In fact, we hope that the Strategy is a catalyst for States and local government developing their own implementation plans for achieving the goals in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, and for working with other partners to better coordinate responses to HIV/AIDS at the state and local levels.

Reducing New HIV Infections

  1. Step 1: Intensify HIV prevention efforts in communities where HIV is most heavily concentrated.
  2. Step 2: Expand targeted efforts to prevent HIV infection using a combination of effective, evidence-based approaches.
  3. Step 3: Educate all Americans about the threat of HIV and how to prevent it.

Increasing Access to Care and Improving Health Outcomes for People Living with HIV

  1. Step 1: Create a seamless system to immediately link people to continuous and coordinated quality care when they are infected with HIV.
  2. Step 2: Take deliberate steps to increase the number and diversity of available providers of clinical care and related services for people living with HIV.
  3. Step 3: Support people living with HIV with co-occurring health conditions and those who have challenges meeting their basic needs, such as housing.

Reducing HIV-Related Health Disparities

  1. Step 1: Reduce HIV-related mortality in communities at high risk for HIV infection.
  2. Step 2: Adopt community-level approaches to reduce HIV infection in high risk communities.
  3. Step 3: Reduce stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV.

Achieving a More Coordinated National Response to the HIV Epidemic in the United States

  1. Step 1: Increase the coordination of HIV programs across the Federal Government and between federal agencies and state, territorial, local, and tribal governments.
  2. Step 2: Develop improved mechanisms to monitor, evaluate, and report on progress toward achieving national goals.

President’s Memorandum to Federal Agencies

Read the President’s memo to the heads of Federal agencies regarding implementation of the Strategy.