LGBTI communities lead the response to growing anti-rights movements
For LGBTI communities, human rights violations are a daily reality, not an abstract risk. Activists face harassment, violence, displacement, arbitrary detention and online attacks, often while trying to keep HIV services running in increasingly restrictive environments. When rights are under attack, access to HIV prevention and treatment suffers for people who are already marginalized.
Counting what it takes to end AIDS
In March 2024, UNAIDS established a Global Task Team of experts from governments, civil society, donors, academic and public health institutions to recommend a new set of global HIV targets for 2030. The targets set out what is required to put the world on the path to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. But defining the ambition raised an equally important question: what would it actually cost, and what impact would achieving the targets have?
New prevention tools, old barriers: Young people shaping the HIV response in Asia and the Pacific
Taking a pill every day may sound simple. But for a young person worried about stigma, privacy or how to explain the medication to their family, it can be anything but.
“I was in a cage. LEN gave me freedom”
After years of fear, a young trans woman in Gauteng found HIV protection that works for her: an injection she needs only twice a year.
1.1%: the number that rewrote Madagascar's HIV response
Not too long ago, across Madagascar, in regions facing severe drought and extreme poverty, some young girls were in dire straits, unable to buy basic necessities, some-times having to exchange unprotected sex for commodities as commonplace as a single tomato.
UNAIDS welcomes a new € 544,000 contribution from Benin to support UNAIDS work in the country
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) warmly welcomes a new contribution of € 544,042 from the Government of Benin to support UNAIDS' work in the country over the period 2026-2027.
UNAIDS convenes African leaders to build health sovereignty and regional production of essential medicines
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the African Union Development Agency (NEPAD) and partners have convened African ministers, government leaders, private sector, and international organizations to drive a shared agenda for health sovereignty and speed-up African production of cutting-edge medicines and health technologies for HIV and other pandemics.
Communities, authorities and UNAIDS coordinate to maintain HIV care during emergencies in Colombia and Venezuela
In June, earthquakes in Venezuela left many people living with HIV facing urgent questions. Were pharmacies and health facilities still operating? Where could they collect their medicines? How could they continue their care? At the Venezuelan Network of People Living with HIV (RVG+), the phone started ringing as people sought information and support.
UNAIDS, WHO and Unitaid bring manufacturers and governments together in Geneva as HIV financing enters a new era
For more than 15 years, UNAIDS and WHO have convened governments, manufacturers, financing partners, communities and technical agencies in Geneva for one purpose: making sure the medicines, diagnostics and prevention products needed for the HIV, TB and hepatitis responses are produced in sufficient quantities and reach countries at prices they can afford.
UNAIDS works with partners and communities to support Zambia's rollout of Lenacapavir to prevent new HIV infections
With Zambia having received the delivery of the first US-funded HIV prevention medicine Lenacapavir, UNAIDS is now working in close partnership with the Zambian government, communities, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and the US government to ensure that this new HIV prevention option reaches the people who need it the most to prevent new HIV infections in the country.
