Taoiseach and Ministers for Health announce €450K funding to boost response to HIV

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister for Health Simon Harris and Minister of State for Health Promotion Catherine Byrne have today signed up to a global initiative aimed at boosting HIV prevention and treatment, and reducing stigma.

The HIV Fast Track Cities initiative is a global partnership between almost 300 cities in collaboration with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC) and was launched in Paris in 2014.