HIV/AIDS Community Planning brings together service providers, Health Department staff, people living with HIV or AIDS, and other concerned community members to create a plan for the network of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Early Intervention, and Patient Care services in their local area. The planning partnership, sometimes called a Consortia, works to ensure that services are available for the people who need them most, that they provide benefit at the lowest cost, and that they are of the highest possible quality.

HIV/AIDS Community Planning was originally supported by the Ryan White CARE Act of 1990 and continues to be supported under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006. This Planning Partnership was intended to ensure that the Federal funds would be allocated to support the most needed services in regions and among groups of people that have been hardest hit by HIV.