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Ending AIDS by 2030 demands targeted community-based HIV approaches
27-07-2022
Humana People to People are attending the 24th International AIDS Conference. The theme for this year is “Re-engage and follow the science.” It will start on the 29th of July and end on the 2nd of August, 2022, in Montreal, Canada.
Humana have reached 22 million people with our TCE actions across 12 countries in Africa and Asia, since 2000. We mark 22 years of being at the forefront of fighting the epidemic in the affected communities, accumulating vast experiences, equipping people with knowledge and tools to take a stand and control the epidemic.
In the conference, we will showcase the effects of Humana work in fighting HIV and AIDS over the years and demonstrate how our programme concepts and models are savings lives and building communities to lead a healthy life. For this year, our members have four abstracts approved for session presentations at the AIDS Conference.
The presentations are on HIV and TB community-centered actions being done by ADPP Mozambique, and DAPP Zambia’s Index Testing effectiveness in locating people who are unaware they are infected by HIV. Lastly, Humana People to People South Africa presents how they are engaging girls and young women at high risk of HIV infection to get tested, access treatment and other HIV associated services.
2020, 37.7 million people who were living with HIV
According to UNAIDS, in 2020 there were 37.7 million people who were living with HIV, out of whom 28.2 million people were accessing antiretroviral therapy. Around 1.5 million people became newly infected with HIV and approximately 680 000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses in in the same year. Much still remains to be done to end AIDS by 2030, the world over.
“To defeat pandemics and protect the health of all people, we need communities to be involved in providing services as an integral part of the public health response. Communities, who know the situation on the ground best and have the essential relationships of trust, need to be given the resources and the space to lead,” says Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director.
We are implementing community-led and people centered HIV/AIDS programmes in sub-Saharan Africa where HIV prevalence remains high. We provide targeted HIV testing, refer for early treatment and support adherence to ART medication. We cooperate with the local Ministry of Health to meet the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets to end AIDS by 2030.
“From the very beginning 22 years ago, the core of our programme was centered around getting to people and communities through partner members in countries including South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, Congo and India, that are very hard to reach, often in highly rural areas as well as the big cities. There, we find the most at-risk populations, including young women and girls. It is critically important that they are supported by our experienced teams, who can intervene early to help prevent the spread of the virus.
“An essential part of our work to end AIDS is aided through our TCE Index Tracking process which ends with our TCE Field Officers identifying sexual partners and children of those who have tested and confirmed with a positive HIV status, to ensure that they are tested accordingly,” says Snorre Westgaard, Chairman of Humana People to People.
