Mayor of Gaborone Abraham Austin in Sevilla, Spain
Botswana meets 90-90-90 HIV/ AIDS targets
Mayor of Gaborone Austin Abraham is this week attending the Mayors conference in Seville, Spain from the 11th to 13th of October 2022.
The conference is held under the theme ‘Leading Together’ and will reflect the intersection of solidarity and leadership in public health as the framework of the Fast-Track Cities movement.
Mayors and other city/municipal officials designate their cities as Fast-Track Cities by signing the Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities, which outlines a set of commitments to achieve the initiative’s objectives.
Initially heavily focused on the 90-90-90 targets, the Paris Declaration was recently updated to establish attainment of the three 90 targets as the starting point on a trajectory towards getting to zero new
HIV infections and zero AIDSrelated deaths
Mayor Abraham was part of High Level Panel on day 1 (yesterday) sharing with Mayors of Bangkok, Seville, Jakarta and with Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS. The invitation was in recognition of Botswana being a success story for the world in its fight against HIV AIDS.
The Fast-Track Cities initiative is a global partnership between cities and municipalities around the world and four core partners – the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the City of Paris.
Mayor Abraham recently agreed with Alankar Malviya, UNAIDS Country Director Botswana to join the initiative and the signing ceremony is planned in coming weeks in Gaborone.