ICASA highlights

Fixed doses will be used and these will make life manageable for people living with HIV. Goals which were overly ambitious have been achieved and we hope that in the next five years we will reach the 90-90-90 as a milestone to attaining the milestone to achieving the MDG.

26 million people will be eligible for medication in Africa and it means reaching key populations.

Investing in health system will help us deliver the ambitious HIV programme.

Public private partnership will have to be strengthened.

UNAIDS estimates that $31.5 billion will be needed to achieve this. This sounds enormous but can be done.

Countries have to aspire to this ambitious programme and improve domestic funding and global funding to the HIV funding.

People living with HIV will have to be retained on long term care.

The private sector will have to make sure medication is affordable.

All individuals who do not know their HIV status must go and get tested.

Condomise project puts emphasis on prevention through use of the condom.

We will reach the targets of ending AIDS by 2030 says WHO.

Collective effort is needed to ending AIDS by 2030.

74 percent new HIV infections are among young women (15 to 24)

We need to empower women and girls and have them greater access to ARVs and making sure girls are kept in schools and keeping them occupied.

West Africa has now a third of people in Africa living with HIV. (25 million in Africa)

Prevent HIV transmission and elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV.

Measurable progress has been made and adolescent infections in Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania decreased.

Leadership needs to harness more on domestic prevention and have prevention champions speak on having no further transmission of HIV.

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