var profiles = { "BRA": { "name": "Brazil", "population": "201.0 Million (July 2013 estimate)", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/brazil.png", "hiv_pop": "530,000–660,000", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "Brazil was the first developing country to adopt Treatment as Prevention (TasP)", "“Implementing Treatment as Prevention is critical to our ability to control the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Brazil” said Fábio Mesquita, director of the STD, AIDS and HIV Department of Brazil’s Ministry of Health. Source", "From UNAIDS progress report: “Brazil has taken the leadership position as the first developing country in the world to provide Treatment as Prevention (TasP), since December 2013. With this measure, treatment can be initiated immediately after the confirmation of the HIV diagnosis regardless the CD4 count. The implementation of this new approach will improve the quality of life of people living with HIV and reduce the likelihood of transmission, hence promoting a public health impact.” Source" ] }, "WDC": { "name": "Washington, D.C.", "population": "603,502", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/WDC.jpg", "hiv_pop": "16,000 diagnosed, more may be undiagnosed", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "The District of Columbia (D.C.) has some of the most aggressive and innovative testing programs in the U.S. covering more than 20 sites around Washington including a Department of Motor Vehicles branch.", "D.C. has near-universal access to health care through the Medicaid program and other insurance providers", "129,464 HIV tests given in 2011 (Hallmark et al, 2014)", "51% of diagnosed HIV+ people have a suppressed viral load. Source", "New York City and Washington DC implemented HPTN 065 (Test, Link-to-Care Plus Treat [TLC-Plus]) to evaluate the feasibility of an enhanced community-level test, link to care, plus treat strategy in the US, designed off the BC-CfE’s Treatment as Prevention model.", "HPTN 065 has enabled the universal offer of expanded HIV testing at 8 facilities throughout the city in addition to 19 HIV test sites & 19 HIV care sites to engage and retain those who test positive with HIV.", "Previous HIV testing campaigns include Come Together DC Get Screened for HIV (2006), Ask for the Test/Offer the Test (2009), and Enhanced Comprehensive HIV Prevention Planning Initiative (2010)" ] }, "SFO": { "name": "San Francisco, California", "population": "837,442", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/SFO.jpg", "hiv_pop": "15,861 (2010)", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "San Francisco was an early adopter of Treatment as Prevention, expanding testing and treatment to encompass all San Franciscans regardless of documentation or immigration status.", "In 2010, they instituted a policy for the universal offer of antiretroviral therapy in all San Francisco Department of Public Health clinics regardless of CD4 count.", "Eliminated a two level system of care where there was a disparity in access to treatment between those in a private or public setting" ] }, "BC": { "name": "British Columbia", "population": "4.61 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/bc-flag.png", "hiv_pop": "11,500", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "British Columbia began the Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention (STOP) of HIV/AIDS project in 2010", "B.C. is the only province in Canada showing a consistent decline in new HIV diagnoses, in part due to the widespread availability of free antiretroviral treatment in the province", "Following early success, the STOP HIV/AIDS project expanded province-wide in 2013." ] }, "ARG": { "name": "Argentina", "population": "41.45 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/ARG.png", "hiv_pop": "98,000", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "Argentina has expressed their intent to implement the BC-CfE’s Treatment as Prevention strategy to expand on their current treatment practices.", "According to the 2013 UNAIDS Global Report, 81% of eligible Argentinians were receiving antiretroviral therapy and treatment adherence remains high due to communications between treatment centres and community groups. Source" ] }, "VAT": { "name": "Vatican City", "population": "798", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/VAT.jpg", "photo_cred": "Photo: David Iliff / CC-BY-SA 3.0", "hiv_pop": "?", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "The Vatican has favoured expanding access to HIV treatment worldwide and at the opening of a Caritas Internationalis and UNAIDS co-hosted consultation at the Vatican, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski called for the implementation of UNAIDS’ Treatment 2015 to expand access to life-saving treatment to 15 million people living with the disease.", "“In all cases, (we must) place at the centre of all our health care interventions with the people (living with HIV), their dignity, their needs and rights,” said Zimowski who serves as president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care.", "Churches and faith-based organizations are the largest single group providing health care services for people living with HIV; in some countries contributing 50% of the facility-based and community care. Source" ] }, "TZA": { "name": "Tanzania", "population": "49.25 Million (2013)", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/TZA.png", "hiv_pop": "1.6 Million", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "Tanzania has a high HIV prevalence rate and has turned to Treatment as Prevention to address this.", "In early 2014, the Tanzanian government launched new guidelines urging women to get tested and access HIV treatment services, in an effort to prevent Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.", "160,000 children under the age of 15 live with HIV with 80% of those receiving it from Mother to Child Transmission.", "These new guidelines offer all HIV-positive pregnant women lifelong antiretroviral therapy regardless of clinical stage or CD4 count, taking a Treatment as Prevention approach to a key population — further reducing incidence going forward. Source" ] }, "SLE": { "name": "Sierra Leone", "population": "6.2 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/SLE.png", "hiv_pop": "56,890 (2013)", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "The Government of Sierra Leone established a 2011–2015 National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS titled “Towards Zero New Infection on HIV Zero Discrimination, Zero AIDS Related Deaths by 2015.” ", "This marked the country’s first comprehensive results-based strategic plan on HIV/AIDS and is roadmap for the country to achieve the UN Millennium Development Gaol to have halted and begun the reverse of the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015. Source" ] }, "SWZ": { "name": "Swaziland", "population": "1.25 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/SWZ.png", "hiv_pop": "200,000–210,000 (2013)", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "Swaziland has some of the highest HIV prevalence and incidence rates in the world and limited resources.", "The innovative MaxART project in Swaziland, initiated by STOP AIDS NOW!, led by the Ministery of Health (MoH), offers people living with HIV healthier and longer lives, and prevents new infections. It embraces the Treatment as Prevention approach. Source", "Swaziland’s strategy, based on the made-in-BC Treatment as Prevention strategy, aims to mobilize community resources and reach out to populations and communities throughout the country with HIV testing, treatment, care, and prevention.", "In a holistic approach, Swaziland also has initiatives to reduce discrimination and include rates of literacy among those living with HIV and AIDS." ] }, "CH1": { "name": "China", "population": "1.354 Billion", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/CH1.png", "hiv_pop": "780,000 (2012)", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "In February 2011, China became the first country to implement the BC-CfE Treatment as Prevention strategy as their national HIV/AIDS policy.", "“We believe that treatment as prevention is the model of care and containment that will best help China meet its goal of bringing HIV and AIDS under control by 2015” said Dr. Zunyou Wu, Director, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Source", "During a massive expansion of testing and treatment, the Chinese CDC tested 101.3 million people (8% of the population) in 2012 alone; a 335% increase over previous years. Source", "This resulted in 82,434 new diagnoses and 55,837 new enrollments into antiretroviral therapy in 2012.", "The total number of people on antiretroviral therapy is 210,468.", "The Chinese CDC has used a “social marketing strategy” to encourage HIV+ people to start early treatment, before symptoms start to arise.", "China has targeted MSM for testing in particular, where they believe the HIV epidemic to be growing.", "Building on these successes, China and the BC-CfE signed a memorandum of understanding in November 2013 to cement their relationship and further partner to fight HIV/AIDS. Source" ] }, "ESP": { "name": "Spain", "population": "46.5 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/ESP.png", "hiv_pop": "140,000–170,000 (2012)", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "Spain introduced new guidelines in November 2013 modeled on the BC-CfE developed Treatment as Prevention strategy, broadening eligibility for antiretroviral therapy for those living with HIV.", "Developed by an expert panel of members from the GeSIDA/National AIDS Plan Secretariat, these guidelines expand access to treatment for patients with symptoms of HIV infection including pregnant women, serodiscordant couples, those with hepatitis B co-infection and HIV nephropathy.", "In February 2014, Spain updated these guidelines to recommend distribution of antiretroviral therapy drugs to all patients with HIV in order to prevent progression, lower viral transmission and limit the effects of coexistent comorbidities." ] }, "FR7": { "name": "France", "population": "66.3 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/FR7.png", "hiv_pop": "120,000–180,000", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "France adopted a new national policy to test and treat HIV modeled after the BC-CfE’s Treatment as Prevention strategy in May 2013. Source", "“[T]he public authorities of British Columbia are already embarked on the path of a population prevention policy partly based on the effectiveness of the treatment, which is deemed able, here in a concentrated epidemic situation, to inflect the dynamics of the epidemic. Moreover, such a strategy is considered cost-effective. Models show indeed that improving the screening and treatment of HIV-positive persons induces important short term additional costs but that middle and long term costs nevertheless decrease in proportion to the number of new infections that have been avoided. It thus enables society to spare substantial costs.” Source", "“The idea of using HIV treatment as a means of prevention implies a paradigm shift in the way HIV treatment is regarded, a statement issued last month by the French National AIDS Council has said.” (May 2009) Source" ] }, "QLD": { "name": "Queensland, Australia", "population": "4.3 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/QLD.jpg", "hiv_pop": "1,763 diagnosed, more may be undiagnosed", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "Signed a memorandum of understanding with the BC-CfE in July 2014.", "Formally adopted the BC-CfE’s HIV Treatment as Prevention strategy to collaborate in supporting HIV positive individuals and at-risk populations in the province of Queensland. Source", "Queensland becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to partner with leading international experts to develop an HIV Treatment as Prevention strategy." ] }, "ZAF": { "name": "South Africa", "population": "48.4 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/ZAF.png", "hiv_pop": "6.1 Million (2012)", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "South Africa’s deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe announced in August 2011 that HIV-positive people in South Africa would have earlier access to anti-retroviral treatment, in keeping with the Treatment as Prevention model.", "“The decision to start people on HIV treatment earlier, before they become sick with diseases like tuberculosis, marks a critical moment for this country that is so hard hit by the epidemic,” PlusNews quoted Gilles van Cutsem, Médecins Sans Frontières’ medical director in South Africa. “We also know that HIV treatment dramatically reduces the spread of the virus to others – by making people more than 96 percent less infectious. Early treatment is better for everyone: for the individual and for the community.” Source", "A study out of rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa published by Science in 2012 showed that a high coverage of ART was associated with a decline in risk of HIV acquisition, consistent with similar findings in British Columbia. Source" ] }, "PAN": { "name": "Panama", "population": "3.61 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/PAN.png", "hiv_pop": "17,000", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "In February 2014, the Government of Panama signed a memorandum of understanding with the BC-CfE to partner in the global fights against HIV/AIDS through implementation of the made-in-BC Treatment as Prevention strategy.", "“We’re excited to see British Columbia’s strategy being embraced by the government of Panama,” said Terry Lake, B.C. Minister of Health. “This new partnership speaks to the tremendous work our government and entire community have done to ensure the Treatment as Prevention strategy is a success for all people living with or at risk of contracting HIV. Panama will be a model to emulate for other Central American countries and the Caribbean, and indeed the rest of the world. ” Source", "The Government of Panama has committed to providing comprehensive care and treatment for those with HIV and AIDS, and has established measures to protect people living with HIV and AIDS against discrimination.", "A 2000 law in Panama stipulated universal access to antiretroviral therapy.", "In 2004, treatment protocols and guidelines for the clinical management of HIV infection were developed and adapted, based on the adaptation of standards proposed by the Pan American Health Organization/WHO and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These standards were first established in the made-in-BC Treatment as Prevention strategy.", "Panama has seen a decline in AIDS cases and AIDS mortality since access to antiretroviral therapy was expanded. Source" ] }, "NYC": { "name": "New York City", "population": "8.4 Million", "flag": "/sites/all/themes/cfe/interactive-map/images/NYC.jpg", "hiv_pop": "39,114", "diagnosed": "84", "treated": "72", "suppressed": "77", "desc": [ "Since 2005, New York City has placed an emphasis on the expansion of HIV testing including screening and targeted testing in non-clinical settings.", "This was followed by an improvement to linkage to care and treatment adherence including establishing rewards for prompt linkage to care. Source", "New York City and Washington DC implemented HPTN 065 (Test, Link-to-Care Plus Treat [TLC-Plus]) to evaluate the feasibility of an enhanced community-level test, link to care, plus treat strategy in the US, designed off the BC-CfE’s Treatment as Prevention model.", "In New York City, HPTN 065 enabled the universal offer of expanded HIV testing at 9 facilities throughout the city in addition to 18 HIV test sites & 20 HIV care sites to engage and retain those who test positive with HIV." ] } };