Botswana close to reaching the 90-90-90 testing and treatment targets
aidsmap.com - "Botswana is already close to reaching the 90-90-90 target for testing, treatment and viral suppression, and is ahead of the United States and most European countries in its efforts to improve treatment coverage, Tendani Gaolathe of the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership reported at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2016) in Boston on Wednesday.
(...) An analysis of treatment coverage in a large population-based study of antiretroviral treatment as prevention – the PopART study – also found that substantial increases in treatment coverage had been achieved as a result of a comprehensive package of home-based HIV testing and linkage to care in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, and in Zambia.
The 90-90-90 target set by UNAIDS encourages countries to aim to achieve:
- Diagnosis of 90% of people living with HIV by 2020
- Initiation of treatment by 90% of diagnosed people by 2020
- Viral suppression in 90% of people on treatment by 2020.
See also: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2016)