Other CDC High-Impact Prevention approaches include campaigns such as Take Charge. Take the Test., encouraging black women to get tested for HIV, Let’s Stop HIV Together, which raises awareness of HIV risk, and One Test. Two Lives., which promotes HIV testing of all pregnant women as a routine part of prenatal care, for their own health and to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
As part of CDC’s National HIV Testing Day Activities, BlackDoctors.org has posted “5 Reasons Women Should #TakeChargeandTest On National HIV Testing Day”. I invite you to take time to read this as well and learn even more about how to protect your health and prevent HIV.
At CDC, we remain committed to increasing HIV awareness and reducing HIV risk among women. As a woman and a public health professional, I am committed personally to using the information I have to protect my own health, that of my family, and the health of women across the country. Knowledge is a powerful tool – especially when it is shared and applied. Join me and together we can reduce the rate of HIV infections in women and improve the lives of women living with HIV.
Hazel D. Dean, ScD, DrPH (hon), FACE is Deputy Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.