To support countries with this approach, unaids has released a new report, focus on location and population. Full text current status towards 909090 unaids target and. Presidents emergency plan for aids relief pepfar, start free, stay free, aids free brings together a coalition of partners to build on the tremendous progress achieved under the global plan towards the. It provides the opportunity to build on the lessons learned from the aids response and to work with the people, institutions and networks that sustain it, to truly advance a.
Four core partners iapac, unaids, unhabitat, and the city of paris are supporting fasttrack cities as they fulfill a commitment to end the hiv, tuberculosis, and viral hepatitis epidemics by 2030. Jobs at unaids the joint united nations programme on hiv. Financing the response to aids in low and middleincome. To assess global and regional progress, overall and by sex for adults aged 15 years and older, we combined countryreported data with estimates generated with. Adopted by the unaids programme coordinating board in october. Rst esa advocates for all regional stakeholders, including regional economic commissions recs, country partners and civil society to adopt the fasttrack approach to ending the aids epidemic as a public health threat by 2030 as articulated in the unaids strategy 2016. United nations a general assembly distr general unaids. China, india and indonesia are among the unaids fasttrack countries and account for 78% of people newly infected with hiv in the region. Health officials in new york city and geneva announced today that these two fasttrack cities have surpassed the unaids 909090 targets. Countries adopt unaids fasttrack strategy to double number of. Unaids estimates, june 2016 unaidskaiser family foundation. Investment in outreach services that ensure that key populations have access to hiv prevention, care and treatment in low and middleincome countries needs to increase to about 7% of total hiv investment by 2020. Hiv prevention programmes as part of fasttracking a comprehensive. If this ambition is to be realised, then a long over due rethink about what works in hiv prevention and how to successfully scale it up across regional.
Global, regional and countrylevel 909090 estimates for. Millions receiving hiv treatment globally media for freedom. Unaids 909090 targets to end the aids epidemic by 2020. Under its new fast track strategy, the joint united nations program on hiv and aids unaids, renewed its 2011 commitment to eradicate aids as a public health concern by 2030.
The prevention scorecards aim to measure and track prevention progress in the priority fast track countries, including on indicators for each of the five prevention pillars, namely adolescent girls and young women, key populations, condoms, voluntary medical male circumcision vmmc and preexposure prophylaxis prep. Unaids, together with governments, civil society and other partners, will help countries identify such areas in which to fasttrack the delivery of hivrelated services. News countries ready to fast track response to end the aids epidemic by 2030 genevanew york, 25 september 2014 a new fasttrack strategy proposes rapid and massive acceleration of hiv prevention and treatment programmes with a peoplecentred approach for. To reach this visionary goal after three decades of the most serious epidemic in living memory, countries will need to use the powerful tools. Unaids issues new fast track strategy to end aids by 2030 on tuesday, november 18, unaids released a new report titled fast track. This document offers guidance on why and how efforts to fasttrack hiv prevention, testing and treatment services can and should be grounded in human rights. The prevention scorecards aim to measure and track prevention progress in the priority fasttrack countries, including on indicators for each of the five prevention pillars, namely adolescent girls and young women, key populations, condoms, voluntary medical male circumcision vmmc and preexposure prophylaxis prep. Led by the joint united nations programme on hivaids unaids and the u. Select countries and cities report 909090 progress in. It charts paths for countries and communities to get on the fasttrack to ending aids and is a bold advocate for addressing the legal and policy barriers to the aids response. Who 17 million people with access to antiretroviral therapy. The momentum must continue to achieve the unaids 909090 treatment target by 2020, whereby 90% of people living with hiv know their status, 90% of people who know their hivpositive status are accessing treatment and 90% of people on treatment have. Support and facilitate strategic partnerships and alliances between unaids cosponsors, national governments, key donors, implementers, and members of civil society organizations regarding fasttrack implementation, including but not limited to supporting mechanisms for information sharing, ideas and lessonslearnt.
Get on the fasttrack the lifecycle approach to hiv. A unaids report shows that countries are getting on its fasttrack lifecycle approach to hiv, with an additional 1m people accessing treatment in just six months to june 2016 by june 2016, around 18. New york city is the first in the united states to surpass the targets by attaining 939092. Countries ready to fast track response to end the aids. Fasttracking the response will require working closely with communities, countries and partners to undertake a series of transformative shifts. Bangkokkarachi, 14 of june 2019 unaids regional director for asia and the pacific eamonn murphy went on an official visit to pakistan, where he reiterated unaids commitment to supporting provincial and federal authorities to respond to the hiv outbreak and strengthen the hiv response in the country. Increasing treatment coverage is reducing aidsrelated deaths among adults and children. Unaids strategy 20162021 on the fasttrack to end aids. Unaids reports that reaching fasttrack targets will avert nearly 28 million new hiv infections and end the aids epidemic as a global health threat by 2030. Taking a fasttrack approach in the battle against aids over the next five years will avert 21 million deaths and allow the world to end the epidemic by 2030, the joint united nations programme on hivaids unaids said in a new report published today. Countries efforts to fasttrack appear to be working. Countries adopt unaids fasttrack strategy to double number of people on lifesaving hiv treatment by 2020.
The lowest achievement rates were in low income and middle income countries lmics. It places people living with hiv and people affected by the virus at the decisionmaking table and at the centre of designing, delivering and monitoring the aids response. Among the remaining reporting countries, eight continue to limit. These seventeen goals and corresponding 169 targets outline international development priorities through 2030. Unaids sustainable development strategy 20162021 on the fasttrack to end aids. The report outlines ambitious new targets to end the aids epidemic by 2030 and prevent nearly 28 million new hiv infections and 21 million aidsrelated deaths. Countries on unaids fasttrack to hiv treatment medical. The unaids fast track approach to treatment is proven to work in countries adopting it. Tuberculosis tb remains among the commonest causes of. The fasttrack commitments are drawn from the 2016 united nations political declaration on ending aids, which was adopted by united nations member states at the 2016 united nations general assembly highlevel meeting on ending aids and the unaids 20162021 strategy. While fasttracking the aids response in order to reach these targets will require additional investment and focused efforts, not reaching these. As one of the 30 fast track countries, responsible for 89% of the global aids epidemic, ukraine adopted the 90 90 90 targets and developed the hiv sustainability strategy approved by the cabinet of ministers, march 2017.
Joint united nations programme on hivaids unaids may. Levi et al 4 adequately highlighted the gaps in hiv diagnosis and provision of cart, which may be unattainable under the ambitious unaids 909090 targets given the current trends. The initiative includes more than 70 cities with high hiv burdens around the world whose leaders and community members have agreed to work to. We used data submitted to unaids from 170 countries to assess countryspecific progress towards 909090 through 2018. The fasttrack implementation department leads and coordinates support to countries, subnational locations and cities to address gaps and programme implementation challenges to. Among the 194 countries that reported information to who and unaids in 2016, 123 of themincluding 29 of 35 fasttrack countries had adopted this treat all approach within their national hiv treatment guidelines. The fasttrack approach is an agenda for quickening the pace of implementation, focus and change at the global, regional, country, province, district and city. Picture of speakers at the fast track cities world aids day event at. Indonesia on fasttrack to end the aids epidemic by 2030 posted on december 1, 2015 by unaidsap home to the third largest number of people living with hiv in asia and the pacific, indonesia is a country critical to ending the aids epidemic in the region and on this world aids day, we are at a defining moment. Seventeen goals and corresponding 169 targets outline international development priorities through 2030. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Unaids issues new fasttrack strategy to end aids by 2030.
Ahead of world aids day 2015, unaids has released a new report showing that. The world is embarking on a fasttrack strategy to end the aids epidemic by. The unaids 20162021 strategy, outlining linkages with hiv. However, the targets only make sense if hiv testing is performed under. Fasttrack cities progress toward unaids 909090 goal. Countries adopt unaids fasttrack strategy liberian observer. Unaids is an innovative united nations partnership that leads and inspires the world in achieving universal access to hiv prevention, treatment, care and support. Fasttrack strategy to end the aids epidemic by 2030 unaids. To take the aids response forward, unaids has developed a fasttrack approach to reach a set of timebound targets by 2020. The joint programme, together with governments, civil society and other partners, will help countries identify such areas in which to fasttrack the delivery of hivrelated services. But the lifecycle approach has to include more than just treatment. Infant diagnosis and paediatric treatment 6 reduction in aidsrelated paediatric deaths 6 validation of countries for eliminating mothertochild transmission of hiv and congenital syphilis 7 next steps 7.
On tuesday, november 18, unaids released a new report titled fast track. Impact of ambitious new targets on hiv infections and aidsrelated deaths, 20102030 6 ending the aids epidemic by 2030 source. The joint programme, together with governments, civil society and other partners, will help countries identify such areas in which to fast track the delivery of hivrelated services. Ahead of world aids day 2015, unaids is launching a new report detailing how countries can reach the 22 million people still. Unaids provides the strategic direction, advocacy, coordination and technical support needed to catalyse and connect leadership from governments, the private sector and. Indonesia on fasttrack to end the aids epidemic by 2030.
Countries adopt unaids fasttrack strategy to double. The unaids fasttrack approach to treatment is proven to work in countries adopting it. The strategy, informed by evidence and rightsbased approaches, maps out the unaids fast track approach to accelerate the hiv response over the next five years so as to reach critical hiv prevention and treatment targets and achieve zero discrimination. Unaids led discussions with mayors from across africa, at the 4th world. The strategy, informed by evidence and rightsbased approaches, maps out the unaids fasttrack approach to accelerate the hiv response over the next five years so as to reach critical hiv prevention and treatment targets and achieve zero discrimination. It charts paths for countries and communities to get on the fasttrack to ending aids and is a bold advocate for addressing the legal and policy. Unaids regional support team for eastern and southern africa advocates for the fasttrack approach to ending aids as a public health threat by 2030 and using the next two years as a fragile window of opportunity for accelerated action. Hiv prevention targets encourage countries to promote access to tailored comprehensive. Unaids to release new report to get countries on the fasttrack to end the aids epidemic by 2030. The unaids 20162021 strategy is a bold call to action to get on the fasttrack and reach people being left behind. The unaids 20162021 strategy elaborates this fasttrack approach.
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