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Representatives from UNAIDS, IAPAC, PEPFAR, and the WHO spoke about disruptions to HIV health services caused by the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Representatives from IAPAC, UNAIDS, PEPFAR, and the WHO raised concerns about COVID-19 disruptions to HIV health services at a virtual AIDS 2020 pre-conference session.

The Fast-Track Cities 2020 conference will transition to an online format due to ongoing public health restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

IAPAC is retrofitting its Fast-Track City dashboards to visualize confirmed COVID-19 case, death, and recovery data alongside existing municipal-level HIV data.

IAPAC has launched a $750,000 Fast-Track Cities Implementation Science Fund to support clinical and community researchers in enhancing urban HIV responses.

IAPAC launched a new training module to promote the integration of the U=U message within HIV-specialized and primary care settings.

IAPAC and UN-Habitat announced a new partnership at the 10th World Urban Forum to strengthen the efforts of Fast-Track Cities to end their urban HIV, tuberculosis, and viral hepatitis epidemics.

The 10th World Urban Forum coincides with the beginning of a global “Decade of Action” to attain key Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

The Fast-Track Cities 2020 conference will convene over 1,000 delegates from hundreds of current and prospective Fast-Track Cities in every region of the world. Mayor Medina said the focus of the conference’s high-level panel will be on drug policies and harm reduction.

IAPAC welcomed several new cities and municipalities to the Fast-Track Cities network to commemorate World AIDS Day 2019. The initiative marked its fifth anniversary since the Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities was first signed on World AIDS Day 2014.

Health officials in New York City and Geneva announced today that these two Fast-Track Cities have surpassed the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets. New York City is the first in the United States to surpass the targets by attaining 93-90-92. Geneva became the fifth European municipality to reach this important milestone by attaining 90-96-93.

The International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC) today launched three data dashboards visualizing baseline data for eight Fast-Track Cities that are striving to attain and surpass the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 90-90-90 targets.

In the lead-up to World AIDS Day 2019, the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC) and Youth Against AIDS announced a partnership today to facilitate increased sexual health literacy and condom use, and decreased incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among youth across the Fast-Track Cities network.

Leading voices in the clinical, public health, and community responses to HIV from across Europe joined IAPAC President/CEO Dr. José M. Zuniga in a symposium panel discussion at the start of the 17th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2019).

The Fast-Track Cities initiative hosted a skills-building workshop for 10 Portuguese cities on October 18, 2019, in Lisbon as part of a Gilead Sciences-funded series of European workshops organized around unique language families.

The city and of Lyon and Métropole of Lyon, France, joined the Fast-Track Cities network coinciding with the October 9-10, 2019, replenishment meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Nurses from around the world convened September 21-22, 2019, in Rome for HIV Nursing 2019.

IAPAC reported new modeling data about the potential to accelerate the end of urban HIV epidemics through increased antiretroviral therapy coverage for people living with HIV.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan today welcomed city, municipal, and global leaders to Fast-Track Cities 2019, the inaugural conference of more than 300 cities and municipalities prioritizing their responses to urban HIV, tuberculosis, and viral hepatitis.

The World Hepatitis Alliance and IAPAC announced a new partnership today on the first day of the Fast-Track Cities 2019 conference in London.

The Fast-Track Cities 2019 conference will welcome hundreds of delegates from 300+ cities and municipalities that have committed to ending their epidemics of HIV, TB, and viral hepatitis by 2030. Delegates will include elected officials, public health leaders, and civil society advocates. The conference, which runs from September 9-11, 2019, in London, will open with a “High-Level Panel on Addressing Health Inequalities.”

Dallas County joined the Fast-Track Cities initiative alongside the cities of Addison, Balch Springs, Dallas, DeSoto, and Grand Prairie to accelerate the end of the HIV epidemic in Texas.

We stand ready to strengthen our longstanding partnership with UNAIDS, including our 5-year collaboration with a growing network of more than 300 Fast-Track Cities that are working in solidarity to end their urban HIV epidemics.

Representatives from China, France, Mexico, and South Africa presented country-level estimates about progress in closing HIV testing, treatment, and viral suppression gaps in the context of the 90-90-90 targets. City-level speakers at the 2019 90-90-90 Targets Update also reported data from Bangkok, London, Mexico City, and New York City.

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar applauded the cities of Cork, Dublin, Galway, and Limerick for signing the Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities in a country-wide effort to address the HIV epidemic.