{"id":14498,"date":"2018-07-25T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psi2030.wpengine.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=14498"},"modified":"2018-07-25T16:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:59:31","slug":"unitaid-steps-up-drive-to-revolutionise-hiv-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/news\/unitaid-steps-up-drive-to-revolutionise-hiv-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Unitaid steps up drive to revolutionize HIV diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amsterdam, 25 July 2018 &#8211; <\/strong>Unitaid stepped up its drive to revolutionize HIV diagnosis with today&#8217;s launch of two grant projects that promote self-testing as a key to turning the course of the world\u2019s HIV epidemic. Unitaid\u2019s investments in HIV self-testing now stand at more than US $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>The new projects, with partners <a href=\"https:\/\/unitaid.org\/project\/in-africa-a-mass-media-campaign-for-hiv-self-testing-and-prevention-among-youth\/#en\">MTV Staying Alive Foundation<\/a> and France\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/unitaid.org\/project\/introducing-and-promoting-hiv-self-testing-in-west-africa\/#en\">NGO Solthis<\/a>, follow several groundbreaking Unitaid-funded initiatives that have proved self-test kits can be an excellent, affordable way to reach people in high-risk, often stigmatized groups where the virus is entrenched, as well as those who have never been tested before.<\/p>\n<p>A quarter of the 36.9 million people living with HIV worldwide are unaware that they are infected, according to the latest UNAIDS report on the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe knowledge we\u2019ve gained in piloting self-testing shows us that HIV self-tests can make a huge public health impact when introduced on a large scale,\u201d Unitaid Executive Director Lelio Marmora said. \u2018The first of the UN 90-90-90 targets calls for 90 percent of people living with HIV to know their HIV status by 2020, and self-testing has the potential to help get us there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To date, 59 countries have self-testing programs, up from 47 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Unitaid is providing US $10.1 million to the MTV Staying Alive Foundation to embed storylines involving HIV self-testing and prevention into its very popular MTV <em>Shuga<\/em>TV drama, a series viewed by many millions of adolescents and young adults in Africa. The grant will also fund a multimedia campaign and peer education programs aimed at people 15 to 24 years old, one of the segments of the population most vulnerable to contracting HIV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unitaid.org\/news-blog\/unitaid-steps-up-drive-to-revolutionise-hiv-diagnosis\/#en\">Ler mais<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_practice_areas":[],"related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-14498","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"related_practice_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_practice_areas?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=14498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}