CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL WORKERS AND PARA-PROFESSIONALS IN SOCIAL SERVICES IN ACHIEVING HIV TARGETS 95-95-95

Since 2015, Cameroon has subscribed to the 90-90-90 targets launched by UNAIDS in 2014, which it was expected to achieve by 2020 with the aim of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030. Cameroon had the figures of 54.45%; 93.1% and 80.1% in 2020 for the three 90s respectively. This is thanks to a strengthening of the social services personnel. Despite the efforts made, we are far from reaching the 1st and 3rd objectives. In addition, UNAIDS since 2020 has boldly increased these targets to 95-95-95 by 2030. The overall objective of the review is to document the contribution of social service staff in achieving the HIV targets.We opted for a narrative review. After breaking down the title into concepts, we found synonyms and translated them into English. This allowed us to establish a search equation which we entered into databases (Hinari, Pubmed and Google scholar) from the internet, however, we also used the university library for the search. Included in this review were: studies involving either social workers or social service paraprofessionals working in the context of HIV as actors; studies highlighting the role or impact of these different actors in achieving the objectives 95 95 95 and the publication interval of the article was between 2014 and 2021.After exclusion of duplicates, titles not belonging to the inclusion criteria and a critical analysis of articles, we retained 75 documents, of which 36 were articles. Social work personnel include social workers and social service paraprofessionals. These personnel exist worldwide and play a positive role in improving the quality of life of people living with HIV and in achieving the goals of HIV prevention and treatment.However, the lack of training among social service staff in Africa, the lack of accreditation and standardisation of training, the lack of regulation around the profession, the lack of PSS and the lack of retraining of these staff, have allowed us to question the level of competence, professionalisation and professionality of social workers and para-professionals in HIV social services