Program Tools | July 2018

AIDS Free Framework to accelerate paediatric and adolescent HIV treatment

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Overview

Overview

Every child and adolescent living with HIV should have access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). The AIDS Free component of the framework has the specific goal of ensuring 95% of all children and adolescents living with HIV have access to lifelong ART by the end of 2018. These efforts will need to be sustained until 2020, when it is estimated that treating 95% of all children and adolescents living with HIV will require providing ART to 1.4 million children (aged 0-14). and 1 million adolescents (aged 15-19).

These ambitious targets will require urgent global and country action to identify more children and adolescents living with HIV, saving their lives by starting ART and retaining them in care. Progress continues to be observed in many high burden countries but achieving these targets within this timeframe will require significant acceleration.

Topics:

Adolescent Identification, Care & Treatment; Pediatric HIV Diagnosis, Care & Treatment