AIDS, Africa, and high ambition
The Lancet Infection Diseases - "UNAIDS intends to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat in Africa by 2030. There is cause for optimism, but a lack of funding threatens the initiative. Talha Burki reports.
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On April 19, 2018, UNAIDS issued a report, Turning Point for Africa, detailing its plans to end AIDS as a public health threat in Africa by 2030. The ambition is in line with the Sustainable Development Agenda, and the UNAIDS report stressed the importance of actively pursuing the previously agreed fast-track targets. Foremost of these is 90–90–90 by 2020 (...). By the end of 2016, these figures stood at 70–77–82 worldwide. (...) “Greatly increased funding needed to achieve the fast-track targets must be set against the reality of shrinking resources”, stated the authors of Turning Point for Africa. They called on African nations to increase domestic funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and control efforts, outlining the progress that the continent has already made in combating the AIDS epidemic." (Photo: The Lancet) |