Atlanta, USA

The UNAIDS Reference Group held a meeting on  Thematic meeting on “Technical Updates and Method Development for the UNAIDS Estimates” at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center, Atlanta, on Friday 1st June 2018.

The purpose of this meeting was to provide technical recommendations for updates to Spectrum 2018 (and accompanying incidence estimation tools), which are used by countries to generate estimates of HIV, as part of the UNAIDS Global Estimates, and to discuss approaches for estimation the HIV Care Cascade indicators (90-90-90).

The program was divided into the following sessions:

  1. Review of 2018 UNAIDS Estimates
  2. Spectrum Updates
  3. EPP and CSAVR Recommendations and Implementation
  4. Estimating ART coverage and HIV care-cascade indicators

The meeting report summarising the key discussions and recommendations, as well as a summary of just the recommendation will be made available shortly. Meeting slides are accessible to logged in members only.

Meeting report Technical Updates, Atlanta, 2018.06.01