LONDON and WASHINGTON, May 31,
2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Collaboration will focus on 16 cities where HIV is highly
prevalent and will help monitor progress towards the attainment of
UNAIDS 90-90-90 and zero discrimination and stigma
targets
ViiV Healthcare and the International Association of Providers
of AIDS Care (IAPAC) today announced a global collaboration to
support 16 cities from around the world that are participating in
Fast-Track Cities. This collaboration between ViiV
Healthcare and IAPAC is designed to help advance Fast-Track Cities
goals to build upon, strengthen, and leverage their existing HIV
programmes and resources to:
- Attain Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
90-90-90 targets[1]
- Increase utilisation of combination prevention: a mix of
effective and proven HIV prevention interventions, including condom
provision, and the immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy
(ART) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Reduce to zero the negative impact of discrimination and
stigma, including in healthcare settings
- Monitor and report progress through a standardised approach to
data generation, analysis, and reporting that embraces local and
global accountability and the use of "open data"
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The ViiV Healthcare and IAPAC collaboration focuses on the
increased generation, analysis, and dissemination of data across
the patient care pathway - also known as the HIV care continuum -
from infection and diagnosis, to treatment and care, all the way to
the result of a suppressed viral load in patients, to achieve the
therapeutic and preventative benefits of ART.
The collaboration focuses on 16 cities where HIV is highly
prevalent (Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bangkok, Brussels, Bucharest, Buenos
Aires, Dar es Salaam, Denver, Durban, Geneva, Kingston, Miami, Nairobi, Paris, Rio de
Janeiro, and San
Francisco). In addition to the provision of technical
assistance to local health departments, each of the Fast-Track
Cities will receive a dedicated web-based dashboard for city-wide
stakeholders and the public health community to both monitor and
provide feedback on progress made towards attaining targets. The
dashboards will also allow participating cities to see the progress
made and strategies deployed in the other cities, and to directly
connect with each other through a global Fast-Track Cities web
portal into which all city dashboards connect.
José M. Zuniga, PhD, MPH, IAPAC's President/CEO, summarised the
new collaboration with ViiV Healthcare: "IAPAC has long valued
partnerships with a variety of stakeholders. ViiV Healthcare will
provide crucial support by helping us meet our objective of
generating critical HIV care continuum data in 16 Fast-Track Cities
that they can utilise to fast-track their local AIDS responses, and
attain the 90-90-90 and zero discrimination and stigma targets. Our
collaboration with ViiV Healthcare is an important means of
maximising resources by leveraging rich experience and skills with
the aim of achieving our collective goal of ending AIDS as a public
health threat by 2030."
Dominique Limet, CEO, ViiV
Healthcare said: "With this partnership, ViiV Healthcare is proud
to contribute to the increased understanding of the HIV epidemic
and effective interventions across the care continuum. There are
still many gaps in our knowledge and understanding of how best to
address the rapidly evolving HIV epidemic."
About Fast-Track Cities
Fast-Track Cities is a global partnership between the
International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC), the
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United
Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the
City of Paris, in collaboration
with local, national, regional and international implementing and
technical partners. Combining the efforts of city governments,
Mayors, affected communities, local health departments and clinical
service providers, the initiative aims to build upon, strengthen
and leverage existing HIV programmes and resources in order to
accelerate locally coordinated, city-wide responses to end AIDS as
a public health threat by 2030. To date 65 cities have joined
Fast-Track Cities (http://www.iapac.org/cities).
About ViiV Healthcare
ViiV Healthcare is a global specialist HIV company established
in November 2009 by GlaxoSmithKline
(LSE: GSK) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) dedicated to delivering advances
in treatment and care for people living with HIV. Shionogi joined
as a 10% shareholder in October 2012.
The company's aim is to take a deeper and broader interest in
HIV/AIDS than any company has done before and take a new approach
to deliver effective and new HIV medicines, as well as support
communities affected by HIV. For more information on the company,
its management, portfolio, pipeline and commitment, please visit
http://www.viivhealthcare.com.
About IAPAC
The International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC)
represents more than 27,500 clinicians and allied health care
professionals in over 150 countries. Its mission is to improve the
quality of HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support services
provided to men, women, and children affected by and living with
HIV and comorbid conditions such as tuberculosis and viral
hepatitis. For more information, please visit
http://www.iapac.org.
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1. UNAIDS 90-90-90 is an ambitious treatment target to help
end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Interim targets by 2020
include ensuring that 90% of all PLHIV will know their HIV status.
By 2020, 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will
receive sustainedantiretroviral therapy. By 2020, 90% of all people
receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression.