Lisbon Mayor Announces
Fast-Track Cities 2020
Mayor Fernando Medina joined with IAPAC President/CEO Dr. José M. Zuniga at Lisbon City Hall on January 17, 2020, to formally announce that his city will host the second annual
Fast-Track Cities conference from September 7-10, 2020.
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Mayor Medina's
announcement was accompanied by a preview of this year's high-level panel discussion, which will focus on how drug policies and harm reduction efforts such as those being implemented in Lisbon and across Portugal have made a significant impact on reducing new HIV infections among people who inject drugs (93% reduction nationwide, 2008-2017).
Please see below for further information about
Fast-Track Cities 2020
, including key dates, online registration, and oral/e-poster abstract submission guidelines.
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Fast-Track Cities Welcomes New Communities on World AIDS Day 2019
NEW YORK CITY AND GENEVA ATTAIN UNAIDS 90-90-90 TARGETS
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The Fast-Track Cities initiative marked its fifth anniversary on World AIDS Day 2019 as several new communities signed the
Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities
. The network has grown from 26 cities in 2014 to encompass more than 300 municipalities around the world today. IAPAC is proud to serve Fast-Track Cities as the initiative's core technical partner, and honored to work with the countless clinicians, advocates, civic leaders, and health officials who create real change in the lives of so many people who are living with or affected by HIV.
Read about all the new Fast-Track Cities on IAPAC's blog.
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DOZENS OF FAST-TRACK CITIES REPORT NEW DATA
IAPAC applauds New York City and the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, as the two latest Fast-Track Cities to reach the UNAIDS 90-90-90 programmatic targets. New York City is the first in the United States to attain these targets by reaching 93-90-92,
only two years after joining the Fast-Track Cities initiative
. The Canton of Geneva became the fifth European community to reach this key milestone by attaining 90-96-93. Several municipalities, such as Bangkok, Thailand; Kyiv, Ukraine; and Nairobi County, Kenya, have reported exceptionally significant gains with respect to HIV testing, treatment, and viral suppression.
The full list of new Fast-Track Cities data is available on IAPAC's blog.
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Fast-Track Cities
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Making Progress, Changing Lives
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"Fast-Track Cities – Making Progress, Changing Lives” is a documentary featuring a tale of courage, determination, and hope told by remarkable people on the front lines of the HIV response in six Fast-Track Cities across five continents.
Produced by Gilead Sciences and IAPAC, the documentary explores three key questions:
What progress has been made in improving access to HIV testing, treatment, and prevention?
What challenges remain to ensure we leave no one behind in urban HIV responses?
How do get to zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths, and zero stigma?
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Join us in Lisbon at
Fast-Track Cities 2020
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Join us September 7-10, 2020, in Lisbon, Portugal, for
Fast-Track Cities 2020
.
Watch the highlights reel
from the inaugural 2019 conference in London and get registered for Lisbon today!
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Orlando to host
Adherence 2020
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Registration is open for
Adherence 2020
, the 15th installment of a conference that is dedicated to the discussion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and biomedical prevention. This year's conference in Orlando, Florida (USA) will feature two new tracks on Implementation Science and Community Engagement.
Last year's conference
featured a keynote address from Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Join us
June 7-10, 2020, for
Adherence 2020.
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Our Newest Partner: Youth Against AIDS
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IAPAC has launched a new partnership with Youth Against AIDS to educate more young people across the Fast-Track Cities network about sexual health, condom use, and preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Read more about the partnership on IAPAC's blog.
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African Fast-Track Cities Meet in Kigali
Representatives from Bamako, Mali; eThekwini, South Africa; Nairobi County, Kenya; Kigali, Rwanda; and Libreville, Gabon, met in Rwanda's capital city for an IAPAC African Regional Fast-Track Cities Workshop on December 8, 2019, with a focus on the optimization of strategies for HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care. IAPAC is planning Local, national, and regional Fast-Track Cities workshops throughout 2020.
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The
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
(
JIAPAC
) is IAPAC's online, open access, peer-reviewed journal. Following is
JIAPAC
's Editor's Pick from one of our most recent issues:
"Psychosocial Well-Being and HIV-Related Immune Health Outcomes among HIV-Positive Older Adults: Support for a Biopsychosocial Model of HIV Stigma and Health." (Rendina, et al. 2019)
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