ABOUT TORONTO TO ZERO
Toronto has always been the epicentre of HIV in Ontario. Home to only 20% of Ontarians, Toronto accounts for about 50% of HIV diagnoses each year.
In 2020, UNAIDS built upon their 2014
90-90-90 HIV targets with ambitious new 95-95-95 targets, suggesting that by 2025:
- 95% of people with HIV should be diagnosed
- 95% of those diagnosed should be on treatment
- 95% of those on treatment should be virally suppressed
Under the new HIV Action Plan to 2030 developed by the Ontario Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS, our goal is to meet and surpass the new UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets.
Planning for Toronto to Zero began in 2018 – pre-COVID. It involved more than 200 people organized into 17 task groups: people living with and at risk of HIV, community-based organizations, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers. The process also included community consultations.
On December 1, 2023, the Mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, officially declared Toronto a Fast-Track City.
OUR TARGETS
In collaboration with Toronto Public Health, the Ontario HIV Treatment Network, and researchers, Toronto to Zero will work towards the following goals:
Reduce the number of new local HIV infections by...
75%
Increase the proportion of people at high risk who are on PrEP from 60% to...
80%
Increase the proportion of people living with HIV in Toronto
who are diagnosed from 89% to...
95%
Increase the proportion of people diagnosed with HIV who are linked to care within one week of their diagnosis, overall and within each population from 65.6% to...
95%
Increase the proportion of people diagnosed with HIV in Toronto who are on treatment, overall and within each population from 86.7% to...
95%
Increase the proportion of people with HIV who are on treatment who are virally suppressed, overall and within each population, from 97.8% to...
98%
Increase the proportion of people with HIV who are on treatment who are virally suppressed within three months, overall and within each population, from 86.4% to...
95%
Guiding principles
To accomplish the goals and intentions of TtZ, activities must embed, and be accountable to, all the following principles.
Utilizing anti-oppressive and anti-racist frameworks to inform, develop, implement and evaluate initiatives that prioritize Indigenous and African/Caribbean/Black Communities across the HIV Care Cascade.
READ THE COMPLETE ACTION PLAN
Our timeline
We've been on the journey to zero HIV infections since 2018.
