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The aim of the new initiative is to leverage improved, accessible, affordable and optimally used diagnostic technologies and strategies to ensure achievement of bold new HIV treatment targets for 2020.
The world is uniting around a final set of treatment targets to lay the groundwork to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. Through national, regional and global-level consultations, diverse stakeholders are pledging to ensure that by 2020.
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HIV treatment is a unique tool in the AIDS response, preventing illness and death, averting new infections and saving money. As hopes for ending the AIDS epidemic depend in large measure on the world’s ability to provide HIV treatment to all who need it, in a rights-based approach, final targets for universal treatment access are critical.
Resource | Publications,
A second round of estimates and projections was conducted in 2007 to estimate future burden and impacts of HIV/AIDS in order to inform national programs anticipating prevention and care needs in Viet Nam. Similar to the 2003 estimates and projections process, seroprevalence data, population size estimates, and pertinent data from ad hoc studies were entered into the Estimation and Projection Package (EPP) Version 3.0 R9 to generate low, medium, and high scenarios of the HIV epidemic. The epidemic curves generated by EPP were then combined with antiretroviral therapy (ART) and prevention of mother to child (PMTCT) data into a second modeling program, SPECTRUM Version 3.14, for further estimates of prevalence, treatment needs, and AIDS related mortality, among other important data presented in this report. National and region-specific outcomes were generated for the 1990-2012 period in Viet Nam and apply to both the general and high risk populations nationwide.
Resource | Guidelines,
This issue of Bite Size Briefs is a summary of the Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations, which was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in July 2014.
The Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations aim to support countries provide more effective and comprehensive HIV services for the key populations, including men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people and include discussion of specific issues relating to adolescent key populations. Although, there is still a lack of evidence to support recommendation of PrEP to transgender women. In this brief we highlight the recommendations made in the Guidelines that are most relevant to MSM and transgender people.
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National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) is a specialized public health programme of the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. The Director of the NSACP in consultation with the senior management team (SMT) provides leadership and technical guidance to both preventive and curative services provided by NSACP.
This report presents data collected and collated primarily from the STD clinics distributed islandwide to describe the epidemiology of STI and HIV and to document programmatic efforts to control STI and HIV infections in Sri Lanka during the year 2013.
Resource | Laws and Policies,
Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV has contributed to the reduction in the number of vertical transmission in Fiji. There has been an increasing focus on prevention of parent to child transmission (PPTCT) with the provision of HIV testing to pregnant women attending antenatal clinics (ANCs). Globally and nationally we have seen PPTCT services reduce HIV infections in children.
The need for prevention of transmission of HIV from parents to child is paramount for the Ministry to achieve its targets of zero new hiv infections which prevents transmission of HIV from parent to child, and secondly to reduce maternal deaths secondary to any AIDS related Illness, which contributes to Millenium Development Goal 5 and zero AIDS related deaths goals by UN.
Resource | Data Sheets,
Selected policies on adolescent friendly health services in low and middle income countries - information from countries that responded to the Global Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Policy Indicator Surveys (2009-10, 2011-12 and 2013-14) undertaken by Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA), and Family, Women's and Children's Health (FWC).
Resource | Reviews and Snapshots,
By 2020, 90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status. By 2020, 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy. By 2020, 90% of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have durable viral suppression. When these targets are achieved, at least 73% of all people living with HIV worldwide will be virally suppressed—a three-fold increase over current estimates of viral suppression. Modelling demonstrates that achieving these targets by 2020 will enable us to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Resource | Guidelines,
HIV is now a treatable condition and the majority of people who have HIV remain fit and well on treatment. Despite this, a significant number of people are unaware of their HIV infection and remain at risk to their own health and of unknowingly passing their virus on to others. Late diagnosis is the most important factor associated with HIV related morbidity and mortality. Patients should therefore be offered and encouraged to accept HIV testing in a wider range of settings.
The new guidelines will provide flexibility and versatility for all healthcare providers and accommodate the decentralized approach being undertaken by the National AIDS Programme (NAP).
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This document represents Thailand’s comprehensive Operational Plan to Accelerate Ending AIDS by 2030, and is focused on the period 2015 to 2019. The actions and interventions outlined here translate the key concepts presented in the current National AIDS Strategy (2014-2016) into an actionable Plan for Ending AIDS in Thailand. This Operational Plan does not replace the strategy document, but rather adds value, by translating new scientific evidence that became available in 2012-2013 into programmatic action. With the aim of fully utilizing this new evidence, the Operational Plan consolidates and refocuses key interventions among key populations (KPs) in high priority geographical sites, with the specific purpose of addressing gaps between the current response and a targeted, optimized response needed to achieve Thailand’s goal of ending AIDS by 2030.