This special episode of the Fast-Track Cities podcast series explores general awareness of and enduring misconceptions about HIV based on a survey of more than 24,000 Europeans. The episode features insights from clinicians, public health officials, and community leaders from six Fast-Track Cities in which the survey was fielded (Amsterdam, Berlin, Kyiv, London, Madrid, and Paris). Learn about their progress made and challenges faced in improving HIV literacy and fighting AIDS-related stigma.

Fast-Track Cities Podcast

Is HIV Sorted?

Two pioneering US cities exemplify both the powerful nature of community-based responses to their HIV epidemics in the mid-1980s, as well as the innovations local stakeholders have harnessed to dream and think big as they endeavor to end their HIV epidemics. Join us on this episode of the Fast-Track Cities podcast series as we go on a global tour of cities accelerating their local AIDS responses, starting with New York City and San Francisco.

A Tale of Two Pioneering Cities

This Fast-Track Cities podcast episode relates how a global network of cities around the world joined together in solidarity to end AIDS as a public health threat. This backgrounder on the Fast-Track Cities initiative helps to set the scene for the remaining 9 podcast episodes in this 12-episode series, preparing listeners to embark on a worldwide tour of Fast-Track Cities. https://www.iapac.org/fast-track-cities/

Fast-Track Cities and the AIDS Response

The advent of antiretroviral therapy, or ART, in 1996 revolutionized HIV treatment, saving and prolonging the lives of people living with HIV who could access these expensive medication regimens.This Fast-Track Cities podcast episode reviews why ART and PrEP, as well as an optimized HIV care environment, are making real the aspiration of ending the HIV epidemic as a public health threat. https://www.iapac.org/fast-track-cities/

HIV: Science, Treatment, and the Future

This episode of the Fast-Track Cities podcast covers the darkest days of the HIV epidemic starting in early 1980s, when whole communities were ravaged by a disease that seemed to spared no one, did not observe borders, and for which there were no treatment options. Affected communities rallied around their dying loved ones and friends, weaving a social safety-net to protect the dignity of the countless men, women, and children who were lost to AIDS. https://www.iapac.org/fast-track-cities/  

Darkest Days

This is the Fast-Track Cities podcast, the official podcast of the Fast-Track Cities Initiative; which is dedicated to building strong community-focused response strategies to eliminate HIV transmission and achieve zero AIDS-related deaths by 2030. This podcast series is brought to you by the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, or IAPAC, which serves as the initiative's core technical partner.

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