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The mission of the Office of HIV Prevention and Care (OHPC) is to improve the quality of life for all Alabamians by ending intersecting epidemics impacting HIV and Hepatitis C through equitable, accessible, and stigma-free prevention and treatment services.
The OHPC’s vision is an Alabama that embraces the dignity of self-respect and universal caring in the human experience, where HIV and Hepatitis C are eliminated by leveraging community partnerships.
The charge of the OHPC is to:
- Monitor the epidemic
- Improve public understanding of HIV
- Prevent or reduce behaviors that transmit HIV
- Increase individual knowledge of HIV serostatus
- Strengthen systems for referral to appropriate prevention and treatment services
Alabama Ryan White HIV/AIDS Part B Program
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Part B Program (RWHAP) supports a comprehensive system of care that ensures ongoing access to high quality HIV care, treatment, and support services for low-income, uninsured, and underinsured people with HIV (PWH), and in limited circumstances, individuals affected by HIV.The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) administers the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and funds Part B services provided throughout Alabama via AIDS Service Organizations and health care providers that offer a wide range of confidential and professional services to eligible individuals.
To learn more, visit Alabama Ryan White HIV/AIDS Part B Program.
Start Talking Alabama
The Start Talking Alabama campaign seeks to increase HIV awareness and decrease the stigma by sharing prevention, testing, and treatment information and support.
Every Dose Every Day App
The CDC's new Every Dose Every Day app is designed to help providers support medication adherence among people living with HIV. Medication adherence improves health outcomes and increases the prevention benefits of treatment. Visit the CDC to learn more about the app.
Continuum of HIV Care by Public Health District
The Preliminary 2024 HIV Continuum of Care depicts persons living with HIV (PWH) in Alabama who are engaged in selected stages of HIV treatment. Successful HIV Prevention and Care programs exhibit high linkage to care among newly diagnosed clients, as well as effective retention in care and adequate viral load suppression among existing HIV-positive clients. As viral load is considered a measure of infectivity, maintaining a suppressed viral load decreases the likelihood of infecting another person and is the focus of Treatment as Prevention strategies. PWH who adhere to antiretroviral treatment and maintain suppressed viral loads can reduce the risk of sexual transmission of HIV by 96 percent. For PWH who reach undetectable levels, there are no documented cases of sexual transmission. This is the premise of the Prevention Access Campaign's Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) initiative, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports, agreeing there is "effectively no risk" of sexually transmitting HIV when on treatment and undetectable.
- Finalized 2021 HIV Continuum of Care
- Finalized 2022 HIV Continuum of Care
- Finalized 2023 HIV Continuum of Care
HIV and Pregnancy
The Office of HIV Prevention and Control collaborates with Alabama's medical providers to reduce the incidence of perinatal HIV infection. Visit HIV and Pregnancy for more information.
STD/HIV REPORT Card
Physicians, dentists, nurses, medical examiners, hospital administrators, nursing home administrators, lab directors, school principals, and daycare directors are responsible for reporting Notifiable Diseases in Alabama. The Alabama Notifiable Diseases Rules, Chapter 420-4-1, specifies the diseases and conditions requiring notification, and the time frame and methods for notification. To report a case of HIV (including symptomatic infection, AIDS, CD4 counts, and viral load), please use the Communicable Disease REPORT Card.
Page last updated: July 7, 2025