Lisboa without Aids
Campaign
##ZERODISCRIMINATION
We have advanced in the treatment of HIV, but the prejudice remains. Let's evolve and make Lisbon a city #zerodiscriminationcity
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Strategy and Activities
With the subscription of the Paris Declaration, in May 2017, Lisbon made a commitment to support and accelerate local responses concerning HIV, aimed at eliminating the HIV and AIDS epidemic as a public health problem in Lisbon by 2030, achieving the goal of zero discrimination and the 95-95-95 targets, meaning that:
- 95% of people living with HIV are aware of their infection;
- 95% of people who know they have HIV are receiving antiretroviral treatment;
- 95% of people undergoing treatment have an undetectable viral load.
In order to achieve these targets, it is necessary to ensure that everyone has access to prevention, screening, treatment and all other healthcare, in a comprehensive approach to HIV infection that also includes tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and other infections, as well as strategies to reduce risk and mitigate damage associated to the use of drugs, promote mental health and the management of comorbidities associated to aging with HIV.
To this end, on May 17th 2018, the Municipality of Lisbon signed a collaboration protocol with key partners to implement the strategy of the "Lisbon, city without AIDS" initiative.
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- Formulate strategies to address the preventive needs on sexual transmission and on sharing of drug use material;
- Distribute HIV prevention materials in accessible locations, in appropriate quantities, and associated with the initiative's graphic identity;
- Provide safe material for drug consumption and naloxone use in the community;
- Collaborate in the introduction of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the community;
- Improve the conditions of access to post-exposure prophylaxis;
- Ensure access to sexual health consultations in key populations;
- Develop a comprehensive plan of action to increase early diagnosis;
- Establish a network of partners and tracing partnerships;
- Collaborate in the implementation of the Test and Treat strategy;
- Remove barriers to diagnosis and treatment;
- Implement continuous monitoring of initiatives under this project.
- Establishment of a local network of partners with experience in the area of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections;
- Creation of operating structures that are facilitating engines of communication / information and allow the streamlining of procedures;
- Establishment of working groups that focus on specific themes according to the objectives to be achieved;
- Creation of a monitoring system to monitor the progress of the initiative in partnership with IAPAC and UNAIDS.
Testimonies
The ambitious goal of this protocol of collaboration between partners in various areas is to make Lisbon a City Without AIDS by 2030.
Of all the commitments made by the City of Lisbon by signing the Paris Declaration on 29 May 2017, it seems to me particularly important that responses to HIV / AIDS contribute to a positive social transformation, in order to promote a welcoming and inclusive society.
It is essential to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable to the epidemic, who are also the most affected and often the most discriminated against: men who have sex with men, migrants, drug users and sex workers. Only then our common goal can be achieved.
Teresa Pizarro Beleza, Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
An infection which is exclusively human, such as HIV infection, deserves a clear control and, ultimately, eradication strategy. There's nothing overly ambitious about it! On the contrary, this has to be the commitment to health as a human right.
Ending the AIDS epidemic is an achievable goal, but in order to be truly effective we need that 90% of people living with HIV know about their status, 90% of those are in treatment and 90% of those achieve viral suppression. We should recognize its syndemic nature, monitor the dynamics of the epidemic, act where the risk is more important, ensure continued pathways in health care and sustainable access, and make the best treatments affordable
In Portugal, it is in large urban centers that infection has a more evident expression: therefore, attentive and caring cities can accelerate this process and lead the end of the epidemic.
Henrique Barros, president of the Institute of Public Health at the University of Porto.
The team
Lisbon City Council - Manuel Grilo, councilor
State Secretary for Health
Portuguese Group of Activists in Treatments - Luís Mendão
Faculty of Law of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Teresa Pizarro Beleza, professor
Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto - Henrique de Barros, president
Activist - Paolo Gorgoni
It is made up of representatives of the following entities:
Lisbon City Council (presidency)
Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Lisbon
Regional Health Administration of Lisbon and Tagus Valley
Directorate General for Health - National Program for HIV and AIDS
Primary Healthcare Clusters of Lisbon North, Central Lisbon and Western Lisbon and Oeiras
Hospital Centers of Lisbon North, Central Lisbon and Western Lisbon and Oeiras
Portuguese Group of Activists in Treatments
Abraço
Expert in the area of HIV - National Institute of Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge
Treatment Activists Group
Luís Mendão, Paolo Gorgoni, Diógenes Parzianello, Raquel Pisco, Filipa Gomes – Equipa de Projeto
Lisbon City Council
Ricardo Fuertes - Cabinet of the councilman Manuel Grilo
Paula Nobre - Head of the Division for Participation and Citizenship
Helena Sequeira - Social Worker