Continuum of HIV care : monitoring implementation of the Dublin Declaration on partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia : 2023 progress report

In 2021, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) updated the HIV targets for 2025 as part of the global strategy to end AIDS by 2030. The updated targets are for 95% of all people living with HIV (PLHIV) to be diagnosed, 95% of those diagnosed to be on antiretroviral treatment and 95% of those on treatment to be virally suppressed by 2025. These targets, referred to as the '95-95-95 targets', are equivalent to a substantive target of 86% of all PLHIV being virally suppressed. The WHO European Region includes 53 countries in Europe and Central Asia that are further divided into three sub-regions (West, Centre, East). For the purposes of Dublin Declaration monitoring, Kosovo and Liechtenstein have also been included and assigned to the Centre and West sub-regions, respectively. These 55 countries are referred to herein as Europe and Central Asia. The overall performance of the Region as reported in 2023, compared with the global 95-95-95 targets, was as follows: 83% of all PLHIV were diagnosed, 84% of those diagnosed were on treatment and 93% of those on treatment were virally suppressed. Overall, 65% of PLHIV were virally suppressed, which is consistent with 2022 (65%), comparable to 2021 (64%) and higher than 2020 (49%). This falls short of the substantive target of 86% of all PLHIV being virally suppressed.