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Inner Sydney, where HIV was once most prevalent in Australia, has reduced new HIV cases by 88% and may be the first place in the world to reach the UN target to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. “These encouraging findings from inner city Sydney show just how far we have come since the early days of the AIDS pandemic….,” said International AIDS Society president Sharon Lewin. “A durable end to Australia’s HIV epidemic requires a cure and a vaccine, and the scientific community won’t stop until we discover them.” Australia is on track to achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets, including the call for 95% of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy to achieve viral suppression by 2025. “As Australia stays on course to become one of the first countries to virtually eliminate HIV, the science produced here has the potential to inform the global HIV response,” said Charles Gilks of the University of Queensland.
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