No prevention, no end
AVAC annual report 2018 - "In just about 24 months, the world will arrive at the deadline for the UNAIDS "Fast Track" goals for ending the epidemic. The primary fast-track goal for HIV prevention is reduction in new diagnoses from roughly 2,000,000 a year, to less than 500,000. There's no chance this goal will be achieved. In July 2018, days before the biennial International AIDS Conference, UNAIDS released its annual state-of-the-epidemic report and declared a “prevention crisis”.
That’s the bad news. There’s a lot of bad news around today though. Here at AVAC, we’re concerned that the true implications of this missed target haven’t sunk in. Simply put, the tremendous gains in the fight against HIV made to date are all in peril due to failures in primary prevention. The good news, such as it is, is that the reasons why the world is going to miss the target are obvious and can be tackled. This year's AVAC Report is dedicated to diagnosing the problem, and proposing actionable solutions. " (Photo: H6 Partners/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)