Budget Function Description
Funding for the Bureau of HIV, which works to eliminate new HIV transmissions and to reduce the morbidity and mortality among NYC residents living with HIV. Key strategies include increasing routine HIV testing, linking and keeping HIV-infected New Yorkers in HIV primary care, promoting early antiretroviral treatment to persons living with HIV, conducting surveillance and program planning, and promoting and normalizing consistent safer sex product use, including male and female condoms. The Bureau focuses on populations with disproportionate rates of HIV infection through a wide range of education, outreach, and prevention strategies.