AIDS prevention plan goes on-line
AIDS prevention plan goes on-line
The Pennsylvania Prevention Project at Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) has put the Pennsylvania Comprehensive Community HIV Prevention Plan on the Internet at its award-winning web site, http://www.stophiv.com.
Developed by a 40-member committee from across the state, the plan provides guidelines people must follow when using state and federal money to develop HIV education and prevention projects. The plan covers Pennsylvania (excluding Philadelphia) and describes how HIV prevention programs should be structured and which populations should be targeted in different regions.
"Ours is the only web site that has posted this type of state plan. Now, people in Pennsylvania will have easy access to these guidelines as they develop their programs," said Michael Shankle, a research specialist with the Pennsylvania Project. Yearly updates of the plan will be posted on the web site.
With more than 1,250 HIV/AIDS-related agencies and organizations in Pennsylvania available on the web site, individuals can access information on education and prevention; health care services; support groups; screening and testing; and other services such as financial assistance.
In operation since July 1997, the web site is the only state-wide, on-line comprehensive resource directory for HIV/AIDS information in Pennsylvania. It won the best web site for health education and promotion at the 1997 National Public Health Association Conference.
For more information about the Pennsylvania Prevention Project, call 412/383-2612 or access the web site.
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