March 6, 2018
What Will It Take to Get to the Finish Line?
Ingrid T. Katz, MD, MHS1,2,3; Peter Ehrenkranz, MD, MPH4; Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA5,6
JAMA. Published online March 6, 2018. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.2093
Recent estimates indicate that approximately 57% of the 36.7 million people living with HIV worldwide are in care and receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART).1 Although this represents a 20-fold increase in less than 2 decades in the number of people receiving ART, these findings also demonstrate that the global community is still far from achieving the targets laid out by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) called 90-90-90—specifically, 90% of all people living with HIV knowing their status; 90% of those diagnosed receiving sustained ART; and 90% of those receiving ART achieving viral suppression by 2020. Accomplishing this ambitious agenda requires sustainable approaches in countries with the highest burden of HIV.2
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