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The mission of the Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) program of the Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Drug Abuse, (NIDA) and theNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of theNational Institutes of Health is to support a multi-disciplinary environment that promotes basic, clinical, epidemiologic, behavioral, and translational research in the prevention, detection, and treatment of HIV infection and AIDS. The CFARs accomplish this mission by:

• Providing scientific leadership and institutional infrastructure dedicated to AIDS research
• Stimulating scientific collaboration in interdisciplinary and translational research
• Promoting development of sustainable multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS research programs at each CFAR institution
• Strengthening capacity for HIV/AIDS research in developing countries
• Fostering scientific communication
• Sponsoring training and education
• Promoting knowledge of CFAR research findings and the importance of AIDS research through community outreach
• Promoting and supporting innovative NIH HIV/AIDS research initiatives
• Establishing collaborative research between CFARs, and supporting HIV/AIDS research networks
• Facilitating technology transfer and development through promotion of scientific interactions between CFARs and industry
• Supporting research on prevention and treatment of HIV infection in hard-to-reach domestic populations, especially in inner city, rural poor, and disadvantaged minorities.

The mission of the CFAR program and mechanisms for achieving this mission were developed by the CFAR directors in 1995 and revised in 1996, 1998, and in the 2002 Position Statement of the NIH CFAR Directors.