Health
Calls for clearer HIV elimination targets – Corowa Free Press
Australia needs clearer targets on the elimination of HIV transmission, experts believe.The nation’s target is to virtually eliminate HIV transmission by 2022, but there’s no clarity on what that term precisely means.
The global target set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS is to end the epidemic by 2030, but this year’s targets were missed.
Professor Jason Ong says virtual elimination means getting to a “very, very, very low” level of transmission.
“But what that level is, is also…
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