More than 500 researchers, scientists and experts have signed the Vancouver Consensus at the end of the 8th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV, Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015) agreeing that all people who have been diagnosed with HIV MUST have access to HIV treatment and ALL must work together to help overcome the barriers to access such as the law, policy, stigma and bias. Also, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxsis (PrEP) MUST be made available to all high risk groups to protect them from acquiring HIV. This way, we can achieve the 90/90/90 goal so that 90% of the people will know their HIV status, 90% will have access to HIV treatment, and 90% will have undetectable viral load while on HIV treatment. We should be proud that Thailand is one of the three countries that treat all HIV-infected patients regardless of CD4 count (i.e., US and Malaysia) because NOW there are overwhelming evidences from the START study, TEMPRANO, and the final outcomes of HPTN 052, that immediate HIV treatment is highly beneficial in reducing AIDS-related events (i.e., TB, bacterial infections), non-AIDS events and deaths by more than 50% as well as effective in protecting people at risk of acquiring HIV infection if PrEP is used.
Lancet Vancouver Consensus: The Vancouver Consensus: antiretroviral medicines, medical evidence, and political will
