Medical practitioners team up to support ambitious HIV treatment target
Over 20 medical doctors from a range of specialisations gathered in Abuja, Nigeria, last Friday, participated in a sensitisation workshop on the UNAIDS treatment target – the 90-90-90. The doctors from the Nigerian Medical Association(NMA) and the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors(NARD) listened to presentations by facilitators from UNAIDS and UNICEF on the ambitious treatment target and shared their views on how best to fast-track and achieve it by 2020. The workshop organised by UNAIDS and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) was geared to sensitise participants on the treatment target which aims at ensuring that, by the year 2020, 90 per cent of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status; 90 per cent of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy; and 90 per cent of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral load suppression. “Unless medical practitioners are fully engaged and take owner