Health centers provide care for patients living with, or at-risk for, HIV or hepatitis. They also improve outcomes for these patients. Health centers provide testing, prevention (through vaccination or medication), care, and treatment as well as outreach, education, case management, and care coordination.
How health centers expand or improve access to HIV care
The health centers we fund are critical to Ending the HIV Epidemic.
They:
- Serve as a key point of entry for people with HIV who do not know they have it
- Provide services like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Emphasize coordinated and comprehensive care
- Manage patients with multiple needs
HIV technical assistance (TA) resources
If you are interested in expanding HIV services or improving their integration into primary care, view these resources developed or used by other health centers.
Hepatitis TA resources
- The National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan 2021-2025 (PDF - 1 MB) details how health care providers, patients, and community leaders can address the condition.
- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and CDC provide resources to screen for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and hepatitis B in pregnant women.
- CDC and vaccines.gov provide resources on hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccines.
- CDC, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), and the AASLD and Infectious Diseases Society of America's HCV Guidelines website provide resources on managing persons with hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection.
- CDC Viral Hepatitis Serology Training videos
- CDC Know Hepatitis B and Know More Hepatitis (Hepatitis C) multilingual patient education campaign and materials
- HHS Viral Hepatitis website
- National Clinician Consultation Center Hepatitis C Consultation Service (Warmline) with online or phone consultations
- National HIV/HCV Co-infection Curriculum with free continuing education credits (2017)
- HCV Current online curriculum and resources for medical and behavioral health professionals at health centers (2017)
- Hepatitis C Online curriculum with free continuing education credits
Review recent health center data
Program awardees and look-alikes report on a core set of measures each year. Get the latest Health Center Program Uniform Data System data.
HIV
In 2022, health centers:
- Provided care to over 199,000 HIV-positive patients
- Tested over 3 million patients for HIV
- Provided PrEP management services to nearly 85,000 patients
Hepatitis
In 2022, health centers:
- Tested nearly 1.2 million patients for hepatitis
- Tested over 2.1 million patients for hepatitis C
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