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A tale of two Fast-Track Cities
  1. Marc Tweed1,
  2. Gillian Louise Dean2,
  3. Stephen Taylor3,4
  1. 1 Terrence Higgins Trust, Brighton, UK
  2. 2 Sexual health and HIV medicine, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton, UK
  3. 3 University of Birmingham Institute of Applied Health Research, Birmingham, UK
  4. 4 Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Stephen Taylor, University of Birmingham Institute of Applied Health Research, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK; steve.taylor{at}uhb.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2024-056136

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    The Fast-Track Cities initiative is a global partnership focusing on the trajectory towards zero HIV transmission (https://www.fast-trackcities.org). Brighton and Hove became the first UK Fast-Track City in 2017, with commissioners, clinical and third-sector organisations working in partnership. The Fast-Track Cities status has provided the infrastructure to accelerate the journey and better measure progress towards zero HIV stigma, zero new HIV infections and zero deaths from HIV. As other cities joined, best practice was shared and the benefits of joint initiatives realised. The Fast-Track Cities initiative also provided a mechanism to intensify HIV prevention and ensure all local stakeholders are involved, aligned and working together towards the common goals: to improve patient involvement and peer support, deliver innovations in HIV testing and care, support opt-out testing in hospitals and primary care, increase research and education, and eliminate HIV-related stigma. In Brighton and Hove, 95% of people living with HIV (PLWH) know their status; 99% are on treatment and 99% on treatment have …

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    Footnotes

    • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

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    • Contributors MT and ST drafted the first version of this column. The BASHH column editors then produced a second version, and MT, ST and GLD all contributed to the final version.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests GLD and MT lead the Brighton Fast-Track Cities taskforce. ST is the clinical lead for the Birmingham Fast-Track Cities Plus initiative.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.