The Partnership to End HIV, STDs, and Hepatitis—comprising AIDS United, NASTAD, the National Coalition of STD Directors, NMAC, and The AIDS Institute—has written a letter to request that the fiscal year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bills include language preserving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) longstanding practice of directly funding community-based organizations (CBOs) to deliver HIV prevention services.
Specifically, we request that the bills include the following direction within the CDC HIV prevention line:
“…no less than $60 million of this amount shall be used for directly funding community-based organizations to conduct HIV prevention activities.”
Direct federal support for community-based HIV prevention has been a public health success story, made possible by decades of bipartisan support. CBOs are effective because of the trust they have earned through years of consistent presence in their communities. This trust brings people in the door for testing, keeps them engaged in prevention and care, and cannot be quickly re-established once lost.
The Partnership urges Congress to protect a defined floor for direct CBO funding to preserve continuity of services, prevent
avoidable loss of local capacity and community trust, and reaffirm Congress’s intent that federal HIV prevention dollars reach the communities most impacted.