Obama Administration’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy

“The following is a review of the Obama Administration’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) released in July of 2010. Each of the four sections of the NHAS are outlined in detail followed by a critical analysis, rooted in public health theory, of the effectiveness of each section and the likelihood of achieving section benchmarks by the year 2015. The report will focus specifically on how well the Obama Administration plans to address co-risk factors such as homelessness, low incomes, and low education levels in populations that are at high risk for HIV. The conclusion provides a summary of suggested additions or revisions to the strategy as well as a list of best practices that could lead the country to further success in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

However, many reports indicate that the goals of the NHAS, even if successful, will not make a significant dent in the overall domestic crisis. Despite a significant push to re-allocating funding to at-risk communities, the NHAS will not be successful in closing the inequity gap in HIV/AIDS if it does not take more significant actions to alleviate the burden of co-risk factors such as housing, poverty, and lack of resources that devastate the same communities devastated by HIV/AIDS.”

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— Maia Gibbons