Progress Toward the UNAIDS 95-95-95 Targets for HIV Care Cascade
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 4
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Interests: HIV/AIDS; adolescent girls and young women (AGYW); HIV testing; vaginal miccrobicides; systematic reviews and meta-analysis; Sub-Saharana Africa (SSA)
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Dear Colleagues,
HIV/AIDS continues to represent a major public health problem globally: by the end of 2023, an estimated 39.9 million people were living with HIV and 1.3 million people had become newly infected with HIV, and around 630,000 people had died from AIDS-related illnesses that year. The Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region is disproportionately affected; 65% of people living with HIV globally reside there, and it has the highest number of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths. UNAIDS has set the 95-95-95 targets, to be achieved by 2030, aiming for 95% of people living with HIV to know their status, 95% of those diagnosed to be on treatment, and 95% of those on treatment to have viral suppression. These targets are important in tracking progress toward eliminating HIV/AIDS in line with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.3, which aims to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases by 2030.
Although UNAIDS and others publish the data on the 95-95-95 targets mainly at the country and regional levels, there is need for detailed data, including on prevalence and factors associated with HIV testing, ART initiation, and viral load suppression, especially among key populations that are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, including adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) aged 15-24 years. Furthermore, the recent US funding cuts on HIV/AIDS in many countries have resulted in the closure of stakeholders and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that had been monitoring such statistics. This development has even led to a temporary freeze on accessing new data on platforms such as the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) website, www.dhsprogram.com, which has been a major source of data for HIV/AIDS.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) will focus on the current progress on the UNAIDS 95-95-95 HIV cascade of care. It is an opportunity to gather scarce data on HIV cascade of care in order to inform interventions to reduce the burden of HIV/AIDS globally. New research papers, scoping reviews, and systematic reviews and meta-analyses are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Alfred Musekiwa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- HIV care cascade
- 95-95-95
- HIV testing
- ART initiation
- viral load suppression (VLS)
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