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Rights, Gender, Prevention & Community Mobilization Department

Global leaders convene to accelerate access to long-acting HIV prevention technologies amidst funding cuts
Global leaders convene to accelerate access to long-acting HIV prevention technologies amidst funding cuts
The global response to HIV has reached a crucial juncture. Groundbreaking scientific advances, including the development of long-acting HIV prevention technologies like lenacapavir and cabotegravir, offer a transformative opportunity to curb the epidemic.
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Moldova builds momentum for stigma-free healthcare for people living with HIV
Towards stigma-free healthcare for people living with HIV in Moldova
In the heart of Chișinău, Moldova, medical students, healthcare workers, civil society members, and representatives of the international community took a symbolic step toward a more inclusive, respectful, and stigma-free health system. 
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Men’s Health Cambodia outreach worker, Chhum Vy, lives in Steung Meanchey, a low-income neighborhood in southern Phnom Penh. She has converted her rental house into a makeshift community centre for the many gay and transgender people who live in the area. To get there you pass through a Buddhist temple compound, then head down narrow streets, just wide enough for a motorbike.
HIV is increasing among men who have sex with men in Cambodia; One organization is trying to turn the tide
Chhum Vy, an outreach worker for Men’s Health Cambodia (MHC), lives in Steung Meanchey, a low-income neighborhood in southern Phnom Penh. She has converted her rental house into a makeshift community centre for gay and transgender people who live in the area. To get there you pass through a Buddhist temple compound, then head down narrow streets, just wide enough for a motorbike. 
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The official poster of IDAHOBIT 2025, celebrated under the theme “The power of communities”. Courtesy of ILGA and may17.org
UNAIDS stands in solidarity with LGBTQI+ communities
GENEVA, 16 May 2025–Ahead of International day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), May 17, UNAIDS stands in solidarity with LGBTQI+ communities. Despite gains in the HIV response, LGBTQI+ communities continue to be left behind.  While new HIV infections have dropped 35% among adults globally since 2010, they have risen by 11% among gay men and by 3% among trans people. Stigma, discrimination and criminalization, as well as restrictions on the ability for community…
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Championing the cause of women living with HIV in Cambodia
Em Ra disappears into the house twice, slipping past the shrine of flowers and incense by the front door. First, she brings out an old HIV magazine. She flips to a page of a small child, sitting on the back seat of a bike, looking straight into the camera. Next, she emerges with two framed photographs from a recent university graduation.  
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Community-led HIV services under threat: global networks and UNAIDS track the impacts of the US funding cuts
Two new key population-led reports, one by Global Black Gay Men Connect (GBGMC) and another by the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD), document the consequences of the US President’s Executive Order in January 2025 which froze all US foreign assistance. 
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HIV services and social reintegration programmes for prisoners and newly released detainees in Kyrgyzstan at risk of collapse
As of April 1, 2025, Kyrgyzstan has reported 14,609 cases of HIV. Of these, 61.8% were transmitted sexually and 27.8% through injection drug use. HIV is increasingly being detected among people outside of traditional key populations — a sign of the epidemic’s broader spread in the country.
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US foreign aid cuts puts the lives of people who use drugs at risk
Godfrey Swai is shaken. Since the end of January, the US aid funding cuts have meant that he can only afford for his staff to work a couple of hours twice a week compared to a full five days.
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UNAIDS statement at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Indigenous Peoples often face higher rates of health risks, greater unmet needs for health and social services and poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous populations. Indigenous Peoples in some contexts are more vulnerable to and disproportionately affected by HIV, tuberculosis and Hepatitis C due to multiple and intersecting inequalities that they face, including racism, poverty, discrimination and marginalization.
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Groundbreaking ruling in Spain overturns discrimination based on HIV status
CESIDA—an organization that coordinates the civil society response to HIV in Spain—and the Fernando Pombo Foundation have won an important ruling that, for the first time, recognizes discrimination based on the serological status of a person living with HIV.The significance of this case lies in the frequency in which similar situations occur to people living with HIV, who continue to face constant stigma and discrimination despite advances in HIV treatment and prevention. 
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Publications

Impact of community-led and community-based HIV service delivery beyond HIV: case studies from eastern and southern Africa

A shot at ending AIDS — How new long-acting medicines could revolutionize the HIV response

UNAIDS data 2024

Take the rights path to end AIDS — World AIDS Day report 2024

2024 global AIDS report — The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

HIV and adolescent girls and young women — Thematic briefing note — 2024 global AIDS update The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

HIV and gay men and other men who have sex with men — Thematic briefing note — 2024 global AIDS update The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

HIV and sex workers — Thematic briefing note — 2024 global AIDS update The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

HIV and people who inject drugs — Thematic briefing note — 2024 global AIDS update The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

Western and Central Europe and North America regional profile — 2024 global AIDS update The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

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