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<p>The HIV Action Plan is the cornerstone of our approach in England to drive forward
progress and achieve our goal to end new HIV transmissions, AIDS and HIV-related deaths
within England by 2030. A key principle of our approach is to ensure that all underserved
populations benefit equally from improvements made in HIV outcomes, including marginalised
women. This includes scaling up HIV testing in targeted, high-risk populations and
increasing equitable access to and use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).</p><p>Initial
analysis recently published by the UK Health Security Agency show that HIV opt-out
testing in emergency departments in local authority areas with extremely high HIV
prevalence has been particularly successful at reaching women with HIV testing. The
HIV Action Plan Implementation Steering Group is developing a roadmap to help guide
our efforts to improve equitable access, uptake and use of PrEP to meet the needs
of key populations at significant risk of HIV, including heterosexual and transgender
women, which is expected to be made available by the end of the year.</p><p>HIV Prevention
England delivers a nationally co-ordinated programme of HIV prevention work designed
to complement locally commissioned HIV prevention in areas with high HIV prevalence
and for communities at risk of HIV transmission, with a particular focus on women,
and includes the promotion of evidence-based HIV prevention interventions such as
condom use.</p>
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