To that end, CDC supports comprehensive school-based HIV prevention programs. CDC does not endorse any specific curriculum, but recommends that the scope and content of school health programs be locally determined and consistent with parental and community values. At the same time, CDC has identified curricula that have credible evidence of reducing health risk behaviors among youth and provides resources to ensure that the interventions, including training, are available for those who want to use them. Inmate populations probably represent the largest concentration of persons infected with, or at high risk for, HIV due to drug use and unsafe sexual behaviors. It is imperative that correctional facilities offer effective programs for disease screening, treatment, and prevention.
Correctional facilities offer significant opportunities for intervention.
Their controlled settings allow efficient access to inmates for the delivery of prevention programs. However, the opportunity to provide comprehensive education and prevention programs in prison, jails, and juvenile facilities, has been missed to a great extent. CDC is working to improve community health through improved access to HIV, STD, and TB health care and prevention services within correctional settings and transitional programs in communities. Some procedures are higher risk than others, but there is a theoretical risk of transmission whenever there is the potential for infected blood to come into contact with another person's blood or mucous membranes. The use of universal precautions.