This World AIDS Day reminds us that we have the power to transform lives and futures, and end the AIDS epidemic once and for all.
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This World AIDS Day comes amid deep uncertainty, and this year’s theme, “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response”, is a clear call to action: the world must step up, not step back.
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UNAIDS releases its 2025 World AIDS Day report: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response: The 2025 funding crisis has thrown the AIDS response into turmoil with massive disruptions to HIV prevention and community led services, particularly for the most vulnerable. However, the new report by UNAIDS shows evidence that resilience, investment and innovation combined with global solidarity still offer a path to end AIDS. …
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The United Kingdom has made significant strides in tackling HIV, however a gender gap in care still exists. Women make up a third of the people living with HIV in the UK, yet they’re often overlooked in testing, prevention and care – which can lead to late diagnoses and poorer health outcomes. Read the full article here.
2025 marks a turning point in the HIV response. Experts are suggesting a projected 24% decrease in HIV funding over the next year in the context of reductions to international aid by several governments, extensive cuts to the US Agency for International Development, and withheld funds for the US President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Read…
HIV-blocking prophylactic antivirals in vaginal-ring and injectable form are not only longer-acting than daily pills, they’re also more discreet. Read the full article here.
According to a study from McGill University researchers, women who experience recent intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV. In Sub-Saharan Africa, women face an intersecting epidemic of IPV and HIV.
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A new UNAIDS report delineates a clear path that ends AIDS, and helps prepare for and tackle future pandemics. The report cautions, however, that ending AIDS will not come automatically. Women and girls are still disproportionately affected, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Globally, 4,000 young women and girls became infected with HIV every week in 2022.
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Recent data gathered from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0 indicates that women living with HIV are at an increased risk of reproductive coercion by healthcare professionals across sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Europe, and central Asia. HIV positive women who are sex workers, use drugs and/or are migrants are more likely to receive poor quality and stigmatising reproductive care.
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This living report details the various global responses of organisations providing harm reduction and auxiliary services to women who use drugs. Responses to COVID restrictions for WUD have been mapped and are presented here.
The individual campaigns led by women who use drugs from all regions, converge into this energetic and engaging call for equal access to health and human rights. In addition, this film summary of some of the campaign actions was launched on International Drug User’s Day 1st November.
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Interview research in Kisarawe, Tanzania has found that heterosexual, serodiscordant couples (where one partner has HIV and the other does not) tend to make joint decisions about HIV prevention and treatment, suggesting that pairs often make decisions about HIV-prevention together and that working with both partners could increase PrEP and ART access.
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In commemoration of the International Day of Action for Women's Health, Nazneen Damji, Senior Global Policy Advisor for Gender Equality, HIV, and Health at UN Women, responds to issues concerning the health challenges women face in 2021, and how a gender equal world can look going forward.
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This year, the International Day of Action for Women's Health highlights the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s right to sexual and reproductive health.
2.2 million Mozambicans are living with HIV, the second-highest number of people living with HIV in the world after South Africa. Every hour in Mozambique, four adolescent girls or young women acquire HIV. The pandemic and the conflict in Cabo Delgado have knocked back the life-saving and life-changing progress that had been made in Mozambique towards overcoming HIV and AIDS. But there is hope.
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Global Citizen spoke to five members of the Generation Equality Forum Youth Task Force about what they hope to bring to the Generation Equality Forum, the gender equality issues they care about most, and how they would like to see young people stand up to achieve gender equality in our lifetime.
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On 10 June, representatives of the United Nations, Member States, young women’s movements and civil society laid out strategic pathways for advancing gender justice and women’s rights and agency at a thematic panel, Advancing Gender Equality and Empowering Women and Girls in the AIDS Response, held during the United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS.
Jointly led by UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, the ‘Education Plus’ initiative is a high-profile, high-level political advocacy drive to accelerate actions and investments to prevent HIV, centred on the empowerment of adolescent girls and young women and the achievement of gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa—with secondary education as the strategic entry point.
Four decades after the first cases of AIDS were reported, new data from UNAIDS show that dozens of countries achieved or exceed the 2020 targets set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2016—evidence that the targets were not just aspirational but achievable. Young women in sub-Saharan Africa, however, continue to be left behind. Six out of seven new HIV infections among adolescents aged 15–19 years in the region are among girls. AIDS-…