What is HIV prevention case management?
HIV Prevention Case Management (PCM) is a client-centered HIV prevention activity with the goal of promoting the adoption and maintenance of HIV risk-reduction behaviors by clients with multiple complex problems and risk-reduction needs. It is a hybrid of HIV risk reduction counseling and traditional case management that includes intensive, ongoing, individualized prevention counseling, support, and service brokerage. CDC provides funding and technical assistance for individual-level health education and risk-reduction activities, including PCM. Guidance for planning, implementing, and evaluating PCM is provided in HIV Prevention Case Management-Guidance. September 1997., which may be obtained through the CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse at 1-800-458-5231. Back to top How do some health departments use individual HIV case reports to initiate referrals for prevention and medical services? Some states have instituted local policies that allow individual case reports to be used to trigger
