The western and central Africa catch-up plan — Putting HIV treatment on the fast-track by 2018
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UNAIDS - The western and central Africa catch-up plan is a political instrument and a compact between countries and the international community that supports countries’ strategies and plans to quickly address bottlenecks, accelerate the national responses and reach a trajectory to achieve the 90–90–90 targets by 2020.
Deriving from the western and central Africa catch-up plan, the country plans are supplementing national strategies and existing plans with the aim of increasing antiretroviral treatment uptake and saving lives.
At a time when the global response to HIV is accelerating, millions of people in western and central Africa are being left behind.
While the world witnesses significant progress, with 57% of all people living with HIV knowing their HIV status, 46% of all people living with HIV accessing treatment and 38% of all people living with HIV virally suppressed in 2015, the western and central Africa region lags behind, achieving only 36%, 28% and 12%, respectively, in 2015. (Photo: © Carsten ten Brink/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)