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Leveraging emergency care to reach key populations for ‘the last mile’ in HIV programming: a waiting opportunity

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: HIV; PLHIV; emergency care; injury; key populationsIn 2021, there were over 38 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) and 650,000 AIDSrelated deaths [1] .These burdens are concentrated in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa, where progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.3 target of ending the global AIDS epidemic by 2030 has slowed [2] , and where the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 95-95-95 HIV testing and treatment cascade targets are at risk of not being achieved [1] .Progress towards these goals has been impeded by the COVID-19 global pandemic with 1.5 million people being newly infected with HIV in 2021, representing the smallest reduction in HIV incidence since 2016 [1] .Incident HIV infections in Africa are concentrated among key populations (KPs), defined by UNAIDS as persons who are gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers (SW), transgender people (TG), people who inject drugs (PWID), and people in prison and other incarcerated people (POIP) [3] .This gap underscores the need for focused and deliberate strategies to achieve "the last mile" in HIV epidemic control.One relatively

Source: AIDS

DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000003709