One role of the Panel is considering the appropriateness of messages designed to communicate with various groups.

Materials are reviewed in accordance with the Content of AIDS-Related Written Materials, Pictorials, Audiovisuals, Questionnaires, Survey Instruments, and Educational Session in the Center for Disease Control Assistance Program Interim Revisions June 1992. 

The Program Review Panel should review written materials, audiovisual materials, and pictorials in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 2500 (b), (c) and (d) of the public Health Service Act.

(b) CONTENT OF PROGRAMS - all programs of education and information receiving funds under this title shall include information about the harmful effects of promiscuous sexual activity and intravenous substance abuse, and the benefits of abstaining from such activities.

(c)  LIMITATION - None of the funds appropriated to carry out this title may be used to provide education or information designed to promote or encourage, directly, homosexual or heterosexual sexual activity or intravenous substance abuse.

(d) CONSTRUCTION - Subsection (c) may not be construed to restrict the ability of an education program that includes the information required in subsection (b) to provide accurate information about various means to reduce an individual's risk of exposure to, or the transmission of, the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, provide that any information materials used are not obscene.

Educational sessions should not include activities in which attendees participating in sexually suggestive physical contact or actual sexual practices.

Panel members use an adapted CDC HERR Materials Review checklist during their material review.  The checklist provides feedback to the Panel Chair and is maintained on file.