UNAIDS has targeted 30 million people to be on ART by 2020, when fiscal requirements are expected to be 26 billion US dollars annually current expenditure is about 7 billion US dollars less.
This presentation will review progress in the AIDS response in the overall context of current global health. Strategies to reduce HIV incidence in EuropeĮuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden It honours Jacqueline Van Tongeren and Joep Lange and their work, and is dedicated to their memory. HIV incidence is increasing in the European region as a whole, although there are large epidemiological differences between Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Whilst overall 80% of people in the European region have been diagnosed with HIV, this varies greatly across sub‐regions with 86%, 83% and 76% of people diagnosed in Western, Central and Eastern Europe respectively. Among those diagnosed, 64% are estimated to be on treatment and this, too, differs across the region with 90%, 73% and 46% of those diagnosed on treatment in Western, Central and Eastern sub‐regions, respectively. Among those on treatment in the European region, 85% are virally suppressed with variations across sub‐regions in Europe (92%, 78% and 74% in Western, Central and Eastern).