World AIDS Day 2016

Hands Up for #HIVprevention

Since 2010, improved access to testing and treatment has resulted in a 26% decline in AIDS relation deaths globally.¹ To continue the momentum we need to create an AIDS-free world by 2030, UNAIDS recommends fast tracking innovations and investments that lead to life-saving care. That means a point of care movement that reaches everyone — no matter where they live or who they are.

Taking our progress in the fight against HIV to the next level.

In 2011, United Nations General Assembly set a goal — they wanted to reach 15 million people living with HIV with life-saving antiretroviral therapy by 2015. They didn’t just meet their goal — they exceeded it by two million people.¹

Some of the biggest lessons they learned during those years were that point-of-care testing (POCT) was the key to detecting and managing HIV, and that rapidly expanding access to these technologies was critical — especially in remote and poor communities.

Thanks largely to scaling up testing programs and linking patients to care and life saving antiretroviral therapy, global AIDS-related deaths are declining steadily. In Eastern and Southern Africa, where the AIDS epidemic is most dire, AIDS-related deaths are down 36% in the same time period.

Even with this success, huge challenges lie ahead. Key populations, like young women, sex workers, prisoners, drug users and men who have sex with men (MSM) are being left behind. Some of the challenges are logistical — like distributing condoms, syringes, and PrEP. But the biggest obstacles to overcome are still fear, intimidation, and ignorance.

Hands up for #HIVprevention is the theme of World AIDS Day 2016.

The UNAIDS campaign Hands Up for #HIVprevention explores how to address all the barriers that prevent adolescent girls and young women, at-risk populations, and people living with HIV from accessing and using these services.

This highly social, highly emotional campaign features the hopes, concerns, and encouragement of real people illustrating just how personal — and all encompassing— the HIV/AIDS epidemic is.

It impacts adolescent girls and young women. It affects children and communities globally. HIV impacts everyone.

Lending a hand to reach UNAIDS 90-90-90 Goals

To help end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, UNAIDS set 90-90-90 goals.¹They’re designed to address significant gaps and shortcomings in every aspect of the cascade of care. Alere is uniquely positioned to support 90-90-90 across the care cascade with its point of care technologies from diagnosis to patient monitoring.

Raise your hand if speed and accuracy matter.

Alere™ HIV Combo

Make every testing opportunity count.

The 4th generation Alere™ HIV Combo test detects more acute infections compared to 2nd and 3rd generation tests. This helps close the window period and enables increased case finding at a time when individuals are highly infectious.

Alere™ HIV Combo provides accurate results in just 20 minutes and can be run using fingerstick whole blood, venipuncture whole blood or serum/plasma. Alere™ HIV Combo is a test strip that’s easy to store, easy to use and test, and doesn’t require any complex testing equipment.