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International public health experts called for the development of a new “global health order” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the Virtual Fast-Track Cities 2020 conference.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg signed the Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities, adding South Carolina’s largest city to a network of more than 300 municipalities worldwide that are committed to ending local HIV epidemics.

The SYNChronicity 2019 Conference convened April 14-16, 2019, in Washington, DC, for three days of networking by and presentations from clinicians, policymakers, community advocates, and service providers about HIV, HCV, STDs, as well as health priorities among LGBT communities.

The Association of Association Executives presented its 2019 Executive Director of the Year Award to Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC) during the 2019 Associations World Congress held in Gothenburg, Sweden.

IAPAC President/CEO Dr. José M. Zuniga joined Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema and a public health delegation from the Dutch capital city during a visit to New York City this week for a bidirectional Fast-Track Cities exchange.