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Cwm Taf Morgannwg Regional Partnership joins Fast Track Cymru Initiative
Thursday 20 February 2025
Cwm Taf Morgannwg Regional Partnership has recently signed the Paris declaration to join the Fast Track Cymru Initiative which commits to working collaboratively to end new transmissions of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Bridgend County Borough is included as part of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Regional Partnership alongside Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, bringing together health boards, local authorities and the third sector to improve the health, social care and wellbeing of people across the region.
Fast Track Cymru is a network of cities and regions across Wales working together as part of a new effort to end new transmissions of HIV in Wales by 2030.
Funded by Welsh Government, the network is hosted by Pride Cymru and operates under a national Advisory Council, which involves key stakeholders from across Wales working together in line with the Welsh Government HIV Action Plan for Wales 2023-2026.
Over the past five years huge progress has been made in improving access to testing and treatment, and Wales can be proud of the significant reduction seen in new diagnoses of HIV. Between 2015 and 2021 new diagnosis of HIV decreased by 75%. However, HIV continues to be an important public health issue.
"Our goal in joining Fast Track Cymru is to encourage and enable collaboration so that we can work together towards an HIV-transmission free 2030, improving prevention, testing, treatment and care, and reducing stigma across our communities. "Partnership working is absolutely crucial and I’m looking forward to seeing how all the different organisations involved can complement each other in achieving our shared aims".
"I am proud that the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Regional Partnership Board has officially become part of the Fast Track Cymru family working to eliminate HIV transmissions and stigma in Wales by 2030. "In Wales today, too many people have an outdated understanding of HIV and I look forward to CTM playing its part in spreading the message that by 2030 everyone should know their status and that with effective treatment you can’t pass HIV on".
For more information on the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Regional Partnership visit: www.ctmregionalpartnershipboard.co.uk