Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth have signed the Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities to end new HIV transmissions by 2030.
Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities signed in Perth by Waverley Care's Chief Executive Grant Sugden and Perth and Kinross Councillors
About Fast-Track Cities Scotland
Fast-Track Cities Scotland, led by Waverley Care, takes a national consortium approach where cities share ongoing local work, discuss best practice and work out solutions to national problems and barriers to HIV transmission elimination.
A priority for Fast-Track Cities Scotland is to engage with people living with HIV to ensure that they have a say in shaping national priorities. That’s why the consortium includes people living with HIV as well as key stakeholders from local governments, NHS boards and third-sector organisations.
Fast-Track Cities Community Panel
To make sure that the input of people living with HIV remains at the forefront of our work, Waverley Care has also set up a Fast-Track Cities Community Panel. The panel is comprised of people living with HIV from each of the cities that signed up and meets several times a year to discuss the biggest issues facing people living with HIV, how we can overcome them, and our progress towards achieving zero new HIV transmissions in Scotland by 2030.
Scotland’s Fast-Track Cities
Fast-Track Cities Aberdeen and Grampian is led locally by Our Positive Voice Grampian, a local forum made up of volunteers living with HIV or experienced in providing support within the sector.
FTC Aberdeen & Grampian originally signed up to the initiative in 2019 and reaffirmed their commitment on World AIDS Day 2022 by resigning the Paris Declaration. The Aberdeen Lord Provost Dr David Cameron and Colin Stewart, chairman and co-founder of Positive Voice Grampian, were signatories.
To get involved with Fast-Track Cities Aberdeen and Grampian, get in touch with Colin Stewart at info@ourpositivevoice.org or Anna Cowan, Waverley Care’s Policy & Campaigns Officer, at anna.cowan@waverleycare.org.
Aberdeen Lord Provost Dr David Cameron and Co-founder of Positive Voice Grampian Colin Stewart
Fast-Track Cities Dundee and Perth is made up of local clinicians, third-sector colleagues and local authority representatives. The two cities are working collaboratively as Fast-Track Cities Tayside, acknowledging their differences but focusing on shared priorities.
The Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities was signed on 11 January 2023 by Dundee City Council’s equalities spokesperson Councillor Nadia El-Nakla, Waverley Care’s Chief Executive Grant Sugden, NHS Tayside Chief Executive Grant Archibald and Public Health Director Dr Emma Fletcher. The declaration was signed in Perth on 15 February 2023 by Perth and Kinross Lord Provost Xander McDade, Councillor Colin Stewart and Waverley Care’s Chief Executive Grant Sugden.
To get involved in Fast-Track Cities Tayside, get in touch with Anna Cowan, Waverley Care’s Policy & Campaigns Officer, at anna.cowan@waverleycare.org.
Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities signed in Perth by Waverley Care’s Chief Executive Grant Sugden and Perth and Kinross Councillors
Fast-Track Cities Edinburgh is made up of local clinicians, third-sector colleagues and local authority representatives. Edinburgh Council Leader Cammy Day signed the Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities on World AIDS Day 2022 alongside the Chief Executive of Waverley Care Grant Sugden.
To get involved in Fast-Track Cities Edinburgh, get in touch with Anna Cowan, Waverley Care’s Policy & Campaigns Officer, at anna.cowan@waverleycare.org.
Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities signed in Edinburgh by Waverley Care’s Chief Executive Grant Sugden and Council Leader Cammy Day
Fast-Track Cities Glasgow is made up of local clinicians, third-sector colleagues and local authority representatives. Glasgow City Councillor Chris Cunningham signed the Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities on World AIDS Day 2022 alongside the Chief Executive of Waverley Care Grant Sugden.
On 1 June 2023, we are hosting a community event in the Mitchell Library for people living with HIV in Glasgow. You will have the opportunity to shape the work of Fast-Track Cities by sharing your thoughts on the biggest issues facing people living with HIV and ways that HIV transmissions in Scotland can be reduced. More information about the event is available here.
To get involved in Fast-Track Cities Glasgow, get in touch with Anna Cowan, Waverley Care’s Policy & Campaigns Officer, at anna.cowan@waverleycare.org.
Paris Declaration signed by our Chief Executive Grant Sugden and Glasgow City Councillor Chris Cunningham.
