Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of London meeting the UNAIDS 90:90:90 targets on HIV infection, what plans they have to update their HIV strategy to ensure that other parts of England also meet those targets.

A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England outlines our ambitions to reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. Specifically the Government is committed to reducing risky behaviour through the promotion of condoms, needle exchange schemes as well as the prevention of HIV acquisition through the possible use of treatments, (such as pre-exposure prophylaxis) and improving early diagnosis through increasing HIV testing and treatment of HIV among persons diagnosed with the virus. There are currently no plans to update the Framework. A copy of the Framework is attached.

The United Kingdom is committed to meeting the United Nations targets by 2020 for stopping new HIV infections, ensuring that everyone living with HIV has access to HIV treatment, protecting and promoting human rights and producing data for decision makers.

England is close to achieving these targets. In 2016, 88% of the 89,360 estimated number of people living with HIV had been diagnosed. Of those diagnosed, 96% were receiving HIV treatment and of those receiving treatment, 97% had a suppressed viral load, fulfilling the second two metrics of the 90:90:90 targets. Overall in England, 82% of people living with HIV are estimated to have a suppressed viral load, surpassing the overall aim of the UNAIDS target (73%). The Public Health England report Towards elimination of HIV transmission, AIDS and HIV related deaths in the UK outlines progress achieved towards these targets. A copy of the report is attached.