AIDS 2018: Takeaways from the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam

8/8/2018

More than 16,000 researchers, advocates, policy makers, funders and community leaders from more than 160 countries came together in Amsterdam for the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018). They are all committed to achieving a world free from HIV. These are the main takeaways:

UNAIDS: progress in achieving the 90-90-90 agenda

29/8/2017

UNAIDS’ latest report shows the world is moving forward in achieving the 90-90-90 agenda. The targets were launched in 2014 to accelerate progress so that by 2020, 90% of all people living with HIV know their HIV status, 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV have access to sustained antiretroviral therapy and 90% of all people with access to antiretroviral therapy are virally suppressed.

An HIV vaccine by 2021?

29/8/2017

At IAS 2017, the academic HIV conference in Paris, the start of a large-scale efficacy study (phase III) into a preventive HIV vaccine in South Africa was announced (HVTN 702). It is the first efficacy study of this scale since 2009.

AIDS 2018: Takeaways from the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam

UNAIDS: progress in achieving the 90-90-90 agenda

An HIV vaccine by 2021?

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