Dr. Gary Blick
World Health Clinicians, USA
Title: UNAIDS “90-90-90â€: Novel and innovative approaches to fighting HIV stigma and discrimination remain urgently needed to overcome these obstacles to HIV testing and linkage-to-care in the developed and developing worlds
Biography
Biography: Dr. Gary Blick
Abstract
On the 35th anniversary of the first reported U.S. cases of men who have sex with men (MSM) developing Pneumocystis Carinii (Jiroveci) Pneumonia and Kaposi’s Sarcoma, and on the 16th anniversary of the first international AIDS conference being held in Durban South Africa to bring attention to the HIV/AIDS crisis ravaging Africans, HIV stigma and discrimination remain the main deterrents to achieving the UNAIDS “90-90-90” 2030 goal of ending the HIV/AIDS crisis worldwide by testing 90% of the population for HIV, 90% of those testing HIV-seropositive being placed on antiretroviral therapy (ART), and 90% of those on ART becoming virologically undetectable. Although there is reasonable understanding of why individuals remain stigmatized, novel and innovative anti-stigma approaches to getting people tested and linked-to-care are desperately needed in both developed and underdeveloped countries around the globe.