Yes, for sure. A written brief submitted by the Community-Based Research Centre provides very specific recommendations around that.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the concept of 90-90-90, but essentially back in 2014, UNAIDS recognized that when people had a suppressed viral load they couldn't transmit the virus to others. Essentially it said that one way we could end the epidemic by 2030 is to get 90% of people who are living with HIV diagnosed, 90% of those diagnosed on treatment and 90% of those on treatment to have a suppressed or undetectable viral load. The last data I was able to see from the Public Health Agency of Canada was up to the end of 2016. They found that 86% of those who were living with HIV were diagnosed, 81% of those diagnosed were on treatment and 91% on treatment had an undetectable viral load.
We see that people living with HIV are doing their job, when they can get diagnosed and on treatment and hit their target four years early, before 2030 when we're supposed to hit 90-90-90. However, we're seeing that in the health system, the two 90s that it's most responsible for, is where we're falling short. Of course, one of them is related to diagnostics. You've heard from multiple witnesses, both through written briefs and oral presentations, about the need to catch up with testing. It's true. I believe Jody Jollimore mentioned that one of these tests is manufactured in B.C., and we can't get it.