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 ...

The HIV response is shifting, offering a vital opportunity to reset.  By: simplifying and prioritizing access to HIV prevention, testing, treatment; strengthening management of drug resistance and advanced HIV disease; and integrating these services within a primary health care approach that includes strong community-based services. Countries can reach more people in need with holistic services, sustaining gains, and building resilient health systems that serve everyone, everywhere.