Health district tackling new strategies to reduce HIV cases By: Caroline Bleakley Posted: Dec 11, 2018 02:51 PM PST Updated: Dec 11, 2018 05:05 PM PST LAS VEGAS - The Southern Nevada Health District is challenging the valley to implement HIV-AIDS intervention and strategies. Tuesday they announced their 90-90-90 challenge. It's a challenge that's a set of goals which focuses on eliminating AIDS as a public health threat. This week the health district plans to reach these goals through academic detailing training for staff, and the expansion of bio-medical interventions. "When public health is successful you don't hear about us. In this case, we've only been marginally successful, and that marginality is that until 2017 the number of those cases were rising and now they seem stable, but a year does not a trend make. So, now is the time to get under HIV disease and now's the time to get...
A bold call for action abroad and an equally bold call for a "new way of doing business" here at home. Under the leadership of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, new structures and systems have been established at every level of the U.S. Government working in international HIV/AIDS to ensure a unified strategic approach to combating the epidemic abroad.