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The Annual Report 2015 provides a summary of key activities conducted by the NSACP during 2015 and data on STI and HIV reported from all the STD clinics. NSACP strongly believes in the importance of STI surveillance in the current low HIV prevalence context.
Resource | Guidelines,
The World Health Organization (WHO) is committed to ensuring that the great success of HIV treatment scale-up is not threatened by HIV drug resistance (HIVDR). Preventing HIVDR is an important part of meeting the 90-90-90 targets by the year 2020.
The development of a five-year plan reflects a global consensus that HIVDR in lower and middle-income countries requires a coordinated and resourced response. The Global Action Plan is an agreement by key partners about their respective roles in preventing, monitoring, and responding to HIVDR.
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The global response in the last 15 years has recorded unparalleled progress in its fight against HIV/AIDS. Since 2000, new infections in adults and children have declined 35%, death from HIV-related causes has declined 24%, almost 16 million people living with HIV are now on ART, and the global response has averted 30 million new HIV infections and 7.8 million AIDS-related deaths. However, despite these achievements, significant challenges remain.
An ambitious goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 has been set by the international community and rapid progress is required in the coming years to render such a goal feasible. In the next five years, three fast-track targets have been established to enable reaching such goal: 1) 90% of PLHIV know their status by 2020; 2) 90% of people diagnosed with HIV receive ART by 2020; and 3) 90% of the people receiving treatment achieve viral suppression by 2020. It is estimated that meeting these “90-90-90 fast-track targets” will avert 28 million HIV infections and 21 million AIDS-related deaths by 2030. In order to reach these targets, it is imperative to scale-up access to innovative cost-effective tools for HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and monitoring.
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Heads of State and Government and representatives of States and Governments assembled at the United Nations from 8 to 10 June 2016, reaffirm the commitment to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as the legacy to present and future generations, to ensure that we are on the Fast-Track to reach this target, and to seize the new opportunities provided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to accelerate action and to recast our approach to AIDS given the potential of SDGs to accelerate joined-up and sustainable efforts to lead to the end of AIDS and we pledge to intensify efforts that will help to increase the life expectancy, quality of life, and dignity of all people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV.
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The global commitment to ending the AIDS epidemic, as set forth in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, represents an unparalleled opportunity to end one of the most devastating modern-day health challenges and also to build on the momentum of the AIDS response in order to accelerate results across the sustainable development agenda. Even when confronted with the vast scale of the global AIDS epidemic, the response to HIV has never lost sight of the value and experience of each individual affected, their hopes and frustrations and their right to health and well-being.
Through a fast-track, multisectoral response to AIDS, and through making more strategic use of the machinery built by the response, considerable contributions to a range of Sustainable Development Goals will be made, including on poverty elimination, food and nutrition security, health, gender equality, decent work, reducing inequalities, cities, justice and inclusive institutions and partnership.
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Since 1994, the Advisory Council on AIDS (ACA) has produced five sets of recommended strategies for Hong Kong to advise the government on her responses to HIV/AIDS, including programmes and services, funding and policies. The latest set of strategies is for the year of 2012-2016. There is a need to formulate another set for the year of 2017-2021 in light of the current HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The ACA adopts a broad-based, participatory and integrated approach to formulate the recommended HIV/AIDS strategies for Hong Kong 2017-2021.
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This strategy update responds to a number of critical external factors, in particular the evolution of the HIV epidemic and the momentum behind treatment scale-up, new global targets for HIV treatment, prevention and non-discrimination, the continued withdrawal of development financing from middle income countries, uneven - and in many countries shrinking - policy and fiscal space for civil society, human rights challenges, increased efforts focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the ambition to achieve inclusive development and equity. This update focuses on where we need to evolve to address these developments. It is not an entirely new strategy, so our four result areas and four responses are retained. Within our updated strategic results framework we present a new, unifying measure for monitoring and reporting public health impact.
Resource | Tools,
This manual for developing national action plans to address antimicrobial resistance has been developed at the request of the World Health Assembly to assist countries in the initial phase of developing new, or refining existing national action plans in line with the strategic objectives of the Global Action Plan. It proposes an incremental approach that countries can adapt to the specific needs, circumstances and available resources of each individual country. Details of actions to be taken will vary according to national contexts.
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2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2016)
February 22-25, 2016
Boston, Massachusetts, at the Hynes Convention Center
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The Board is presenting this special report to Member States in the hope that the analysis and recommendations presented therein may assist them in the development of national policies and control systems that are capable of achieving the goals of the international drug control conventions in relation to ensuring availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Member States have already underlined the importance of this issue in a number of resolutions and political declarations adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. They also referred to it in the Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases and in resolution WHA67.19 of the World Health Assembly, on strengthening of palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course.