Can Europe reach the 90-90-90 target for HIV treatment by 2020?
aidsmap.com - Eastern Europe unlikely to reach 90-90-90 target by 2020. The European region needs to step up prevention and treatment activities if it is to reach the UNAIDS target by 2020.
"Europe is not done with AIDS and there is no room for complacency”, Professor Kazatchkine told delegates.
“There isn’t one Europe”, Professor Kazatchkine told a press conference on the opening day of the 15th European AIDS Conference in Barcelona on Wednesday. The World Health Organization (WHO) Europe region covers 53 countries, and “in fact, there are three Europes – Eastern Europe, Central Europe and Western Europe – with different epidemics, different responses and different levels of success.”
The Eastern European epidemic continues to grow, driven largely by unchecked epidemics in people who inject drugs, but autonomous epidemics are also emerging in heterosexual men and women through sexual transmission in the region, Professor Kazatchkine warned. (Image: Michel Kazatchkine presenting at EACS 2015. Image credit: mtvisuals.com)