It’s been four years since AVAC advanced these criteria for effective targets in our 2014/15 Report, Prevention on the Line. Then, we identified targets that have advanced the field and ones that have fallen short. Today’s prevention crisis exists in part because the primary prevention targets set by UNAIDS didn’t meet these criteria. Targets for primary prevention are still essential, but they won’t get met without demand creation work, such as we describe in this section. It’s not too late to recalibrate resources and commitment.
Anatomy of a Target
Annual Number of VMMCs, 2008-2017
AVAC’s take on milestone events and impact on VMMC numbers.
Global Number of New HIV Infections, 2000-2017 and 2020 Target
1.3 million person gap between the current rate and the 2020 target.
Kenya’s HIV Prevention Revolution Roadmap
From the Kenyan Ministry of Health, here’s Kenya’s HIV prevention roadmap — counting down to 2030.
Public Health is Personal
What gets measured gets funded, the adage goes. What would happen if communities demanded measurements of individual and collective health and well-being that have nothing to do with a retrovirus or a specific sex act, and everything to do with human dignity, comfort and safety in one’s own skin—a comfort that’s hard-fought in racist, sexist, homo– and trans-phobic nations? Imagine a world in which this cascade counted as much as 90-90-90. Let’s work to make it a reality.
AVAC Report 2018: No Prevention, No End!
AVAC’s 2018 annual state of the field report, No Prevention, No End! looks at today’s prevention crisis and offers context, analysis and strategy to turn that crisis around.
AVAC Report 2018 & HIV R4P
In this episode of Px Pulse, Ntando Yola, a veteran advocate and part of the Coalition to Accelerate and Support Prevention Research (CASPR) shares his advocacy priorities for R4P and beyond. But first, AVAC’s Emily Bass talks about the just-launched 2018 annual report from AVAC, this year titled No Prevention, No End!
Combination Prevention and AIDS 2018
In this episode, featuring Ambassador Deborah Birx, we take a look at one area of great importance that was center stage at the AIDS 2018 conference in Amsterdam: primary prevention.
Cure Research and Analytic Treatment Interruption
In this episode of Px Pulse, researchers and advocates debate the rationale, risks and ethics of interrupting treatment as part of cure research. This is known as analytic treatment interruption or ATI.
Oral PrEP Enrollment Snapshot
For trends in oral PrEP uptake, check out the Oral PrEP Enrollment Snapshot. This PowerPoint deck illustrates major findings from the tracker with heat maps showing where people are initiating PrEP, updates against targets and more. A PDF version is also available.