A cure for HIV: When will Europe get there?

EU Confidential

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

There’s one key weapon that would be a gamechanger in the fight to end HIV transmission in Europe by 2030 – a cure. Forty years after scientists in Paris identified the virus that caused AIDS, we still don't have one. But, given that certain populations in Europe still don't have access to existing prevention, testing and treatments, there's a big question looming over the race for a cure: If it's ever found, will Europe get it to those who need it most? In this live recording of EU Confidential in focus, POLITICO's Ashleigh Furlong debates these questions with Sara Cerdas, a Portuguese Member of the European Parliament from the Socialists and Democrats group who works on health-related legislation, Belgium’s former Health Minister Maggie De Block, and Ann Isabelle von Lingen, policy and programme manager for combination prevention at the European AIDS Treatment Group. This is the third of several bonus episodes of EU Confidential coming to you this month. Your regular EU Confidential episodes will still appear in your feed every Thursday. And, if you haven't already, be sure to listen to our previous episodes on criminalizing HIV transmission and how to eliminate HIV in Europe's prisons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Suzanne Lynch, and you're listening to a special bonus episode of EU Confidential, brought
0:05.5	to you by our health team. I'll be back with our regular episode on Thursday. See you then.
0:11.9	Today's episode is presented by Gilead. Gilead's track record of innovations has helped transform
0:18.1	HIV into a preventable chronic condition, and we are not stopping there.
0:23.3	Together, we can end the epidemic for everyone, everywhere.
0:30.4	What is the key priority at the EU and national levels to eliminate the HIV epidemic in Europe?
0:37.0	Accessibility to all stages of prevention,
0:39.3	primordial, primary, secondary tertiary, and so on.
0:43.3	Accessibility.
0:44.3	I think I would second that.
0:45.3	Access.
0:46.3	Access to the whole range of services, treatment,
0:50.3	diagnostic tools, everything.
0:53.3	Access. Also, everything. Access.
0:54.6	But also just do it.
0:56.6	Just do it.
0:59.5	Don't preach, do it.
1:04.4	The heart of the barrier to ending AIDS as a public health rent
1:08.1	is getting the existing solutions that we know work to those who need
1:12.5	the most. That's the message from the former Belgian health minister, a prominent Portuguese member
1:18.3	of the European Parliament and the European AIDS Treatment Group, whom you've just heard at the top of the
1:23.2	podcast. I recently sat down with the group in our Politico offices in Brussels to debate whether Europe will ever find a cure.
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