Saint Lucia now joins Belize (2016), Antigua and Barbuda (2022), St. Kitts and Nevis (2022), Barbados (2022), and Dominica (2024), which decriminalised same-sex intimacy in recent years. This ...

This story first appeared in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025 report.

Whether it is a refusal of care, humiliating comments or disclosure of their status, many people described feeling alienated. Last year, with funds from Expertise France and the help of UNAIDS and ...

“I did not even know HIV existed in Tajikistan,” she recalls. Her husband rejected her, and his family blamed her after he ...

These commitments are critical to scale up treatment access for the 60% of people living with HIV in the Philippines who are ...

Responding to the sharp increase in new diagnoses, the Government of Fiji declared an HIV outbreak in January 2025. The HIV Outbreak Response Plan and the previously announced Counter Narcotics and ...

Jokpee’s story is a warning. When community-led and -based systems lose support, people fall through the cracks. If it were not for places like Reach Out Mbuya, Jokpee and his peers would be at risk ...

“The bold financial commitment made by Côte d’Ivoire is a powerful example of what political will and national leadership can achieve in the HIV response,” said Ms Byanyima. “Domestic financing is the ...

GENEVA, 4 July 2025— It is with profound sadness that UNAIDS learns of the passing of the former Deputy President of the ...

In January the Government of Fiji declared an HIV outbreak in response to the sharp increase in new diagnoses. Although its HIV Surge Strategy seeks to rapidly expand HIV testing and treatment, most ...

GENEVA, 15 July 2025–Lenacapavir–a long-acting, six-monthly injectable antiretroviral medicine manufactured by Gilead Sciences–is now recommended by the World Health Organization as an additional HIV ...

A historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress unless countries can make radical shifts to HIV programming and funding. The report highlights the impact that the sudden, large ...