World AIDS Day

This side event will examine the urgent need to ensure continuous and equitable access to life-saving HIV treatment across Africa, particularly in the face of evolving funding challenges, fragile health systems, and persistent barriers to care. Guided by the principle of "With Africa, In Africa ," the discussion will highlight the importance of local leadership, community-based responses, and sustainable international partnerships in advancing the HIV response. Despite significant global progress in HIV prevention and treatment, access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART) remains uneven, particularly in parts of Africa and other highly affected regions. Fragile health systems, funding constraints, conflict, stigma, and disruptions to treatment delivery continue to prevent many people living with HIV from receiving consistent care. Recent challenges affecting international HIV/AIDS assistance programmes have further underscored the need to safeguard treatment access ...

  Global Aids Strategy Major milestones in the development of the Strategy. ▪ Developing the targets . Throughout 2024 and in early 2025, UNAIDS laid the foundation for the development of the next Global AIDS Strategy. This involved four streams of work:  (a) the mid-term review of the 2021–2026 Global AIDS Strategy;  (b) the development of 2030 global AIDS targets by an advisory Global Task Team on Targets for 2030; 70  (c) support to countries to develop national HIV sustainability roadmaps; and  (d) multi-stakeholder consultations. The work continued despite the mounting financial challenges in 2025.  ▪ Identifying what worked. The mid-term review highlighted major gains, especially in the expansion of access to HIV treatment, but also showed persistent inequalities in access to HIV prevention and insufficient progress in removing societal and structural barriers. It identified major opportunities to expand access to new prevention technologies, secure ...