1THE FUTURE OF HIV PREVENTION

In the United States, it is estimated that prevention efforts have already averted more than 350,000 HIV infections.1 Since the height of the epidemic in the mid-1980s, the an-nual number of new HIV infections in the United States has been reduced by more than two-thirds, and recent scientific breakthroughs have equipped us with an unprecedented number of effective tools to prevent infection.2-6 CDC believes that maximizing the impact of these tools within the framework of a new approach called High-Impact Prevention offers more hope than ever before for reversing the U.S. HIV epidemic. Through High-Impact Prevention, CDC is working to advance the goals of the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) and to help ensure that HIV pre-vention efforts have the greatest possible impact. National HIV/AIDS Strategy In July 2010, the White House released NHAS, a comprehensive roadmap for reducing the impact of HIV.7 The Strategy sets clear priorities and targets for HIV pre-vention and care in the United States, and calls on gov-ernment agencies and their public and private partners to align efforts toward a common purpose