Autor/Autorin: DRAME Abibata
Drame Abibata is a teacher-researcher at the UFR Information Communication et Arts of the Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny. She is in charge of the Communication for Development program. She is also a member of the Laboratoire des Sciences de la Communication, des Arts et de la Culture.
With the advent of triple antiretroviral therapy and the development of the concept of combined prevention, knowledge of serostatus has become essential both at individual level, to improve well-being, and collectively, to reduce transmission of the virus. Screening has thus become the main means of access to care and prevention services, as confirmed by the UNAIDS 90-90-90 multisectoral strategy, whose first objective is to screen 90% of estimated people living with HIV (PLHIV) (UNAIDS 2014)Despite the creation of voluntary screening centers in the majority of countries, WHO estimates that 54% of PLHIV do not know their serostatus, suggesting that current screening models are failing to reach populations most at risk of HIV infection.