Combating HIV in Sweden : A Global Milestone Achieved

Combating HIV in Sweden: A Global Milestone Achieved

Sweden Reaches the 95-95-95 HIV Targets

Sweden has become the first country in the world to achieve the 95-95-95 goals set by UNAIDS and WHO in the fight against the HIV epidemic, well ahead of the 2025 deadline. This global model aims for 95% of people living with HIV to be diagnosed, 95% of those diagnosed to be on treatment, and 95% of those on treatment to have an undetectable viral load. In Sweden, these targets have been reached and even exceeded, with respective rates of 96%, 99%, and 98%.

Study Confirms the Results

These findings come from a study titled “Sweden surpasses the UNAIDS 95-95-95 target: estimating HIV-1 incidence, 2003 to 2022,” led by Erik Lundgren, Macauley Locke, Ethan Romero-Severson, and their colleagues, and published in Eurosurveillance. The study draws on data from the national HIV cohort, established in 2003, which includes over 99% of diagnosed cases in the country. The analyses were conducted using bioinformatics methods, in collaboration with researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.

Targeted Prevention and Diagnostic Efforts

Researchers emphasized that these results highlight the effectiveness of prevention and diagnostic efforts, particularly among people who inject drugs (PWID) and men who have sex with men (MSM). They added that these advances justify continuing targeted preventive measures, such as needle exchange programs and PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), which are often paired with access to HIV testing.

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