UNAIDS has announced global 90-90-90 data: 70-77-82 Are we on target? What more can we do? Find out.

UNAIDS has announced global 90-90-90 data: 70-77-82

Are we on target? What more can we do? Find out.

The International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC), in partnership with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), British Columbia Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BCCfE), Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+), and International AIDS Society (IAS), is hosting the 2018 90-90-90 Targets Workshop at the midpoint to the 2020 deadline for attaining the targets. The Workshop will take place July 21-21, 2018, at the RAI Amsterdam Conference Center in Amsterdam, immediately preceding AIDS 2018.   The United Nations 90-90-90 targets call for 90% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) to know their status, 90% of PLHIV who know their status to be on antiretroviral therapy (ART), and 90% of PLHIV on ART achieving viral suppression by 2020.   According to UNAIDS, there has been substantial global progress made since 2014 towards attainment of the 90-90-90 targets. More than two thirds of all PLHIV globally knew their HIV status at the end of 2016. Among those who knew their HIV status, 77% were accessing ART, and 82% of PLHIV on ART had suppressed viral loads. UNAIDS further announced on World AIDS Day 2017 that as of June 2017 more than half of all PLHIV, 20.9 million, were accessing ART. This global ART scale-up is the main contributor to a 48% decline in AIDS-related deaths, from a peak of 1.9 million in 2005 to 1.0 million in 2016.   However, 15.8 million PLHIV still need HIV treatment and, because most belong to stigmatized and vulnerable populations, they are at risk of being left behind. Additionally, modelling indicates that reaching 90-90-90 after 2020 could translate into a slower decrease in annual new HIV infections and a higher level of AIDS-related deaths - 3.5 million more infections, and 3 million more deaths. Stronger, smarter, more comprehensive action is thus needed now through 2020 to accelerate progress towards attaining each of the three 90 targets and to address gaps and shortcomings that jeopardize the potential to reach the targets in all settings and for all populations. Building upon the success of the 2017 90-90-90 Targets Workshop, the 2018 Workshop will feature a ministerial and high-level panel discussion aimed at connecting the dots between the 90-90-90 targets and ending AIDS as a public health threat. The Workshop will also include presentations about innovations to close gaps across the HIV care continuum. Additionally, over the course of the two-day program, the Workshop will include plenary sessions and panel discussions focused on the critical engagement of affected communities, key population-specific challenges, the evolving HIV treatment and prevention landscape, leveraging HIV platforms for the tuberculosis and viral hepatitis responses, and financing the global AIDS response. Following are the specific topics the Workshop's faculty will cover: On Track? Global and Regional Progress towards the 90-90-90 Targets Fast-Track Cities - Attaining 90-90-90 in Urban AIDS Responses Leveraging Success - The Nexus between 90-90-90 & HIV Epidemic Control Who is Dying and Why? AIDS Mortality as a Progress Metric Policy Change - Measuring 90-90-90 Progress Against National Policies Investment Case - Quantifying Civil Society Contributions towards 90-90-90 Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free - Accelerating the Pediatric HIV Agenda Social Protection - Improving HIV Outcomes among Adolescents Missing Link - Reaching and Linking Men to Health and HIV Services Getting to 90 - Optimizing Linkage to HIV Prevention and Care among Men Who Have Sex with Men Barriers to Bridges - Reducing HIV-Related Disparities for Transgender Individuals Left Behind - Prioritizing People Who Use Drugs in the AIDS Response Human Mobility and HIV - Improving Access to Services for Migrants Security of Resources - Global Finance, 90-90-90, and Ending AIDS Sustaining National AIDS Responses - South Africa's Roadmap Shouldering the SDG Burden - Should We Preserve or Share HIV Budgets? Democratizing HIV Testing - Transitioning to Community Settings Differentiated Care - Moving to Scale with Innovative Service Delivery Phylogenetic Monitoring - Moving from Science to Public Health Benefit Decriminalizing HIV - Human Rights, Public Health, and U=U Primum Non Nocere - Eliminating Stigma in Health Settings HIV Testing and Human Rights - The Right to Know vs the Right to Privacy Looking Ahead - Long-Acting Antivirals for HIV Treatment and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Behavioral Science - Taking New Learnings to Scale for HIV Prevention Challenge - Advanced HIV in Antiretroviral-Experienced Patients Intersection - Linking the 90-90-90 Targets for HIV and Tuberculosis Opportunity - Hepatitis C Elimination and Ending AIDS as a Public Health Threat The Workshop's Keynote address will focus on Maximizing Synergies - HIV within an Evolving Global Health Agenda. The ministerial and high-level panel will speak to Connecting the Dots - 90-90-90 and the Continuum to Zero. Click here to learn more about the Workshop or click here to access the Workshop program. Faculty member names and affiliations will be posted as they are invited and confirmed. Registration for the 2018 90-90-90 Targets Workshop is free-of-charge for AIDS 2018 delegates and on a and on a first-come, first-served basis.   Because the Workshop venue can only accommodate 450 delegates, individuals interested in attending are encouraged to register ASAP. REGISTER