ASIANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS AND HIV PREVENTION COMMUNITY-PLANNING

Since 1993, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has r equired state and local health departments to engage in a community pl anning process and to develop HIV prevention plans to spend federal HI V prevention funds. This analysis reviews the HIV prevention plans fro m 29 states, 5 local governments, and 6 Pacific Island jurisdictions ( 61.5% percent response rate). The plans from these 40 jurisdictions re flect the uneven implementation of HIV prevention community planning e fforts and the uneven progress is achieving CDC's core objectives for HN prevention community planning. Specifically, Asians and Pacific Isl anders (APIs) often are not represented in state and local HIV prevent ion community planning groups. There also are significant gaps in the manner in which HIV and AIDS surveillance data are collected and repor ted for APIs. Finally, API populations are rarely included in HIV prev ention priorities.