Sure, thank you very much.
First off, it would be very helpful if I could follow up with some more detailed information following today's session as I don't have the full breadth of information at my fingertips, but what I can say is that according to UNAIDS—and I'm going to refer to some background information here just because I'm not great with short-term memory—across the world in terms of where we are standing globally on reaching our 90-90-90 targets, we are off track. While we are seeing general prevention or new infections start to decline, in many areas of the world we're still seeing them rise.
In 2017—these are statistics from World AIDS Day, December 1, 2018—if we're looking at the 90-90-90 cascade, three out of four people living with HIV knew their HIV status. That makes it about 75% knowing their HIV status worldwide. Among people who knew their status, about four out of five were accessing treatment. That is about 79%. Again, we are still far off from 90. Among people accessing treatment, four out of five were virally suppressed, or 81%, and 47% of all people living with HIV around the world are seen as being virally suppressed. We have a considerable way to go.
This is a strategy that has been widely endorsed by all UN member states. It is the key global public health strategy that is being implemented in order to reach the 2030 goals. But we are seeing a slowdown in progress largely because of drops in funding to HIV prevention activities, particularly within the community, as well as a slowdown in terms of political will, where it's no longer seen as being the priority issue amongst governments and decision-makers but rather has fallen to the side of the agenda.
However, it is an incredibly critical issue and if we are to reach that 90-90-90 target in countries around the world, we really do need to step up the fight, which also means more resources and political will.