Tackling HIV Drug Resistance: Trends, Guidelines and Global Action

It is estimated that by the end of 2016, nearly 37 million people were living with HIV, of whom 19.5 million were taking life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART). This number highlights the incredible progress made in expanding access to treatment, but also underscores the effort still required to fully implement the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “treat all” recommendation.

Adoption of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and WHO’s Global health sector strategy on HIV, 2016–2021 demonstrate the commitment of countries to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. To track progress towards this goal, WHO and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have set the target of 90% of people living with HIV on ART to achieve virological suppression by 2020, rising to 95% by 2030.