FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 22, 2026
Congress must preserve $60 million in direct CDC funding or risk disrupting proven HIV prevention services nationwide
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Partnership to End HIV, STDs, and Hepatitis today called on House and Senate appropriations leaders to protect direct federal funding for community-based organizations delivering HIV prevention services.
In a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the Partnership urged Congress to include the following language in the fiscal year 2027 appropriations bills:
“No less than $60 million of this amount shall be used for directly funding community-based organizations to conduct HIV prevention activities.”
The Partnership includes AIDS United, NASTAD, the National Coalition of STD Directors, NMAC, and The AIDS Institute.
The request follows reports that the Office of Management and Budget has instructed CDC not to recompete its current cooperative agreement for community-based HIV prevention programs when the extended program period concludes. Without congressional action, funding could be redirected and a national network of 96 organizations could be allowed to lapse. The proposed language would not increase federal spending.
“For more than 30 years, direct federal support for community-based HIV prevention has earned bipartisan support because it works,” the Partnership said in a joint statement. “These organizations help people get tested, connect them to care and access proven prevention services. Allowing this network to lapse would disrupt successful programs, weaken local health infrastructure and jeopardize community trust that has taken decades to build.”
Community-based organizations are especially important in high-burden areas across the South and in rural communities, where they may be the primary local source of HIV testing and prevention services. Preventing a single HIV transmission also avoids an estimated lifetime treatment cost of approximately $500,000.
The Partnership is urging advocates, public health leaders and community members to contact Congress and ask appropriators to preserve the $60 million funding floor.
The Partnership’s full letter to congressional appropriations leaders can be read here.
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About the Partnership to End HIV, STDs, and Hepatitis
The Partnership to End HIV, STDs, and Hepatitis brings together AIDS United, NASTAD, the National Coalition of STD Directors, NMAC, and The AIDS Institute to advance federal policies and investments that strengthen the nation’s response to HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and viral hepatitis.