Asians and Pacific Islanders and HIV prevention community planning.

Since 1993, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has required state and local health departments to engage in a community planning process and to develop HIV prevention plans to spend federal HIV prevention funds. This analysis reviews the HIV prevention plans from 29 states, 5 local governments, and 6 Pacific Island jurisdictions (61.5% percent response rate). The plans from these 40 jurisdictions reflect the uneven implementation of HIV prevention community planning efforts and the uneven progress is achieving CDC's core objectives for HIV prevention community planning. Specifically, Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) often are not represented in state and local HIV prevention community planning groups. There also are significant gaps in the manner in which HIV and AIDS surveillance data are collected and reported for APIs. Finally, API populations are rarely included in HIV prevention priorities.