The 2024 global AIDS report The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads, released 22 July 2024, is available here. 

Progress in prevention and treatment is faltering around the world, putting millions of people in grave danger. Eastern Europe and central Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa have all seen increases in annual HIV infections over several years. In Asia and the Pacific, UNAIDS data now show new HIV infections are rising where they had been falling. Action to tackle the inequalities driving AIDS is urgently required to prevent millions of new HIV infections this decade and to end the AIDS pandemic. See also: Executive summary | Fact sheet | Epi slides | Microsite | Press release | Arabic

Every year UNAIDS provides revised global, regional and country-specific modelled estimates using the best available epidemiological and programmatic data to track the HIV epidemic. Modelled estimates are required because it is not possible to count the exact number of people living with HIV, people who are newly infected with HIV or people who have died from AIDS-related causes in any country: doing so would require regularly testing every person for HIV and investigating all deaths, which is logistically infeasible and ethically problematic. Modelled estimates—and the lower and upper bounds around these estimates—provide a scientifically appropriate way of describing HIV epidemic levels and trends.

This report, which marks World AIDS Day 2022, unpacks the impact that gender inequalities, inequalities faced by key populations, and inequalities between children and adults have had on the AIDS response. It is not inevitable, however, that these inequalities will slow progress towards ending AIDS. We know what works—with courage and cooperation, political leaders can tackle them. Read press release. Report introduction available in languages, including Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish.

The “ENDING AIDS, ENDING INEQUALITIES FAST-TRACK CITIES” report presents recent good practices from the 15 cities included in the joint UNAIDS-IAPAC Fast-Track Cities project supported by PEFPAR/USAID. It shows how cities are responding to HIV and other global health threats, building municipal capacity and strengthening partnerships, using data and spearheading innovation to protect and support their citizens. It further shows that, despite varying contexts and challenges, addressing inequalities and reaching those most vulnerable is central to advancing the HIV response towards ending AIDS by 2030.