ViiV Healthcare and the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC) to Collaborate on Fast-Track Cities

London and Washington (ots/PRNewswire) -

Collaboration will focus on 16 cities where HIV is highly
prevalent and will help monitor progress towards the attainment of
UNAIDS 90-90-90 and zero discrimination and stigma targets

ViiV Healthcare and the International Association of Providers of
AIDS Care (IAPAC) today announced a global collaboration to support
16 cities from around the world that are participating in Fast-Track
Cities (http://www.iapac.org/cities/). This collaboration between
ViiV Healthcare and IAPAC is designed to help advance Fast-Track
Cities goals to build upon, strengthen, and leverage their existing
HIV programmes and resources to:

- Attain Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 90-90-90
targets
(http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2014/90-90-90)[1]
- Increase utilisation of combination prevention: a mix of effective
and proven HIV prevention interventions, including condom
provision, and the immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy
(ART) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Reduce to zero the negative impact of discrimination and stigma,
including in healthcare settings
- Monitor and report progress through a standardised approach to data
generation, analysis, and reporting that embraces local and global
accountability and the use of "open data"

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The ViiV Healthcare and IAPAC collaboration focuses on the
increased generation, analysis, and dissemination of data across the
patient care pathway - also known as the HIV care continuum - from
infection and diagnosis, to treatment and care, all the way to the
result of a suppressed viral load in patients, to achieve the
therapeutic and preventative benefits of ART.

The collaboration focuses on 16 cities where HIV is highly
prevalent (Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bangkok, Brussels, Bucharest, Buenos
Aires, Dar es Salaam, Denver, Durban, Geneva, Kingston, Miami,
Nairobi, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and San Francisco). In addition to
the provision of technical assistance to local health departments,
each of the Fast-Track Cities will receive a dedicated web-based
dashboard for city-wide stakeholders and the public health community
to both monitor and provide feedback on progress made towards
attaining targets. The dashboards will also allow participating
cities to see the progress made and strategies deployed in the other
cities, and to directly connect with each other through a global
Fast-Track Cities web portal into which all city dashboards connect.

José M. Zuniga, PhD, MPH, IAPAC's President/CEO, summarised the
new collaboration with ViiV Healthcare: "IAPAC has long valued
partnerships with a variety of stakeholders. ViiV Healthcare will
provide crucial support by helping us meet our objective of
generating critical HIV care continuum data in 16 Fast-Track Cities
that they can utilise to fast-track their local AIDS responses, and
attain the 90-90-90 and zero discrimination and stigma targets. Our
collaboration with ViiV Healthcare is an important means of
maximising resources by leveraging rich experience and skills with
the aim of achieving our collective goal of ending AIDS as a public
health threat by 2030."

Dominique Limet, CEO, ViiV Healthcare said: "With this
partnership, ViiV Healthcare is proud to contribute to the increased
understanding of the HIV epidemic and effective interventions across
the care continuum. There are still many gaps in our knowledge and
understanding of how best to address the rapidly evolving HIV
epidemic."

About Fast-Track Cities

Fast-Track Cities is a global partnership between the
International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC), the
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United
Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the City of
Paris, in collaboration with local, national, regional and
international implementing and technical partners. Combining the
efforts of city governments, Mayors, affected communities, local
health departments and clinical service providers, the initiative
aims to build upon, strengthen and leverage existing HIV programmes
and resources in order to accelerate locally coordinated, city-wide
responses to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. To date 65
cities have joined Fast-Track Cities (http://www.iapac.org/cities).

About ViiV Healthcare

ViiV Healthcare is a global specialist HIV company established in
November 2009 by GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)
dedicated to delivering advances in treatment and care for people
living with HIV. Shionogi joined as a 10% shareholder in October
2012. The company's aim is to take a deeper and broader interest in
HIV/AIDS than any company has done before and take a new approach to
deliver effective and new HIV medicines, as well as support
communities affected by HIV. For more information on the company, its
management, portfolio, pipeline and commitment, please visit
http://www.viivhealthcare.com.

About IAPAC

The International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC)
represents more than 27,500 clinicians and allied health care
professionals in over 150 countries. Its mission is to improve the
quality of HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support services
provided to men, women, and children affected by and living with HIV
and comorbid conditions such as tuberculosis and viral hepatitis. For
more information, please visit http://www.iapac.org.

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1. UNAIDS 90-90-90 is an ambitious treatment target to help end
AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Interim targets by 2020
include ensuring that 90% of all PLHIV will know their HIV status. By
2020, 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive
sustainedantiretroviral therapy. By 2020, 90% of all people receiving
antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression.

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Contact:
Sébastien Desprez (UK)
Global Communications
ViiV Healthcare
+44-7920-567-707

Isabelle Scali (UK)
Global Communications
ViiV Healthcare
+44-7557-290420

Marc Meachem
US Communications
ViiV Healthcare
+1-919-483-8756

Lindsay G. Deefholts
Global Communications
International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC)
+1-416-301-7966