Achieving the 90-90-90 target

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• UNAIDS outlines progress on HIV, but decries funding cuts

  Achieving the 90-90-90 target
  Liz Highleyman | 22 July 2019

  The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released its latest report on the status of the HIV epidemic and the global response ahead of the 10th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019), taking place this ...

• Less than half of adolescents with HIV since birth in the US have an undetectable viral load

  Young people
  Michael Carter | 18 July 2019

  Engagement with the HIV care continuum among individuals with perinatally-acquired HIV in the United States falls well below targets, research published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes ...

• Significant health gains from faster switching to second-line ART in sub-Saharan Africa

  Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
  Michael Carter | 29 May 2019

  Switching to second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) after a single viral load measurement above 1000 copies/ml has the potential to save lives, avert a significant burden of AIDS-related illnesses and help achieve the 90-90-90 ...

• Multiple benefits to scaling up universal test and treat in Africa

  Achieving the 90-90-90 target
  Roger Pebody | 08 March 2019

  As well as the important findings of PopART, the largest HIV prevention trial ever conducted, this week’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle heard about several other studies from African ...

• The length of time Americans with HIV remain infectious is falling, but slowly

  Undetectable viral load and treatment as prevention
  Roger Pebody | 07 March 2019

  In 2016, more than half of people with HIV in the United States took more than three years to be diagnosed, and more than five months after diagnosis to be virally suppressed, ...

• HIV infections lowered by 30% in universal testing and treatment study

  Achieving the 90-90-90 target
  Roger Pebody | 06 March 2019

  Communities in southern Africa which received a door-to-door HIV testing intervention and support for linkage to care had substantially lower HIV incidence, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2019) in ...

• Point-of-care viral load testing improves treatment outcomes and retention in care

  Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
  Roger Pebody | 05 March 2019

  Same-day provision of results from a point-of-care viral load test – rather than waiting weeks for laboratory results to be collected – resulted in a 14% improvement in virological suppression and retention ...

• 55% drop in HIV incidence in gay men in England in just two years

  Epidemiology
  Roger Pebody | 05 March 2019

  In just two years, the incidence of new HIV infections in men who have sex with men attending English sexual health clinics fell by 55%, according to data presented by Dana ...

• HIV prevention cascades could highlight gaps in prevention programmes

  HIV prevention policy
  Roger Pebody | 14 February 2019

  A simple HIV prevention cascade could be a powerful tool for advocates, policy makers and funders, researchers argue in The Lancet HIV. It could help us understand where the gaps in prevention ...

• Glimmers of hope: moving towards better HIV and TB treatment in eastern Europe

  Access to medicines and treatment
  Gus Cairns | 07 February 2019

  Eastern Europe continues to have one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world outside sub-Saharan Africa, with the worst linkage to care of any region in the world, last week's meeting ...

• UNAIDS 90-90-90 target is reachable for most sub-Saharan Africa countries

  Achieving the 90-90-90 target
  Esther Nakkazi | 19 December 2018

  A mathematical model has shown that just under half of countries in sub-Saharan Africa are likely to reach UNAIDS’ ambitious 90-90-90 target and ultimately 73% of all people living with HIV in ...

• Ten reasons people stop attending HIV care in Zambia

  Retention and linkage to care
  Roger Pebody | 10 December 2018

  Patient-provider relationships are strained by poor working conditions and rigid application of one-size-fits-all models of care, according to an in-depth investigation of why people with HIV drop out of HIV treatment services in ...

• HIV diagnoses fell in the UK in 2017 for the first time among all risk groups, all ethnicities and in all regions, annual report reveals

  Achieving the 90-90-90 target
  Gus Cairns | 29 November 2018

  The 2018 report from Public Health England is entitled Progress towards ending the HIV epidemic in the United Kingdom, and for once the note of optimism in the title is justified.The report ...

• Reaching the men: who are the partners of the young women with HIV in South Africa?

  Heterosexual men
  Gus Cairns | 05 November 2018

  In the high-prevalence countries of southern Africa, young women under 25 bear the brunt of the epidemic, with continued high rates of HIV infection. So much so, that epidemiologists at ...

• Viral suppression within three months of HIV diagnosis should be a policy target, NYC officials say

  Retention and linkage to care
  Michael Carter | 23 October 2018

  An undetectable viral load within three months of HIV diagnosis should be added as a target to the US National HIV/AIDS Strategy, public health officials from New York City argue in The ...

• Integrated support intervention improves engagement with HIV and methadone treatment among people who inject drugs

  Retention and linkage to care
  Michael Carter | 18 October 2018

  Providing information on how to navigate care pathways, psychosocial support, and immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive people who inject drugs in Ukraine, Vietnam and Indonesia increased retention in care, ART use, viral ...

• Starting from here – what PrEP programmes can learn from circumcision

  PrEP
  Gus Cairns | 10 September 2018

  Funders, health providers and advocates should take lessons from the rollout of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an HIV prevention measure in Africa if they wish to hasten access to programmes providing ...

• Work to improve the HIV care continuum for black transgender women should concentrate on HIV diagnosis

  Transgender people
  Roger Pebody | 05 September 2018

  Less than half of black transgender women living with HIV in the United States are aware of their HIV status, but most of those who have been diagnosed report that they engage ...

• Poorer ART outcomes show need to prioritise older people in HIV test and treat programmes

  Ageing and HIV
  Michael Carter | 05 September 2018

  HIV testing and treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa need to prioritise older individuals, according to research published in PLOS ONE. Investigators in Uganda found that after starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) people aged 50 years ...

• Indonesia: tackling HIV in one of the world’s fastest-growing epidemics

  Delivery of care
  Gus Cairns | 04 September 2018

  A prospective study that recruited a significant proportion of people newly diagnosed with HIV in four locations in Indonesia and offered them immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) found that only 35% of them ...