HIV Outcomes Call to Action | Recommit to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030: the need for a new EU Action Plan on HIV/AIDS
With little more than five years remaining until 2030, HIV Outcomes calls on the new European Parliament and the next European Commission to prioritise the fight against HIV/AIDS over the 2024-2029 EU mandate, in line with the global political commitment to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. To help achieve this goal, and in support of national efforts to enhance the long-term health and well-being of people living with HIV, HIV Outcomes calls for the adoption of a new EU Action Plan on HIV/AIDS.
If Europe is to achieve the UNAIDS 2030 target for ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the new European institutions must play their part by renewing the EU’s committment to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
HIV Outcomes calls for EU policy-makers to support the development of an EU-wide Action Plan on HIV/AIDS, focused on three main aims:
- Reaffirming the EU’s political committment to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030
- Improving rapid access to HIV prevention and treatment options
- Enhancing efforts to strengthen the long-term health and well-being of people living with HIV
As the core mission of HIV Outcomes focuses on the third of these aims, our priority proposals for a new EU Action Plan focus principally on that aim:
- Enhancing HIV initiatives and best-practice sharing withing the Public Health Expert Group (PHEG)
- Improving EU-wide data collection, including on health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
- Funding programmes that support person-reported outcome measurements (PROMs)
- Funding pilot studies on long-term care for people living with HIV
- Combatting stigma & discrimination affecting people living with HIV
- Engaging civil society and community organisations
