The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response.”
The commemoration of World AIDS Day, which takes place on 1 December 2025, is an important opportunity to highlight the impact that the funding cuts from international donors have had on the response to AIDS as well as to showcase the resilience of countries and communities stepping up to protect the gains made and drive the HIV response forward.
In 2025, a historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress. HIV prevention services are severely disrupted. Community-led services, vital to reaching marginalized populations, are being deprioritized while the rise in punitive laws criminalizing same-sex relationships, gender identity, and drug use is amplifying the crisis, making HIV services inaccessible.
The global AIDS response has been upended in recent months but there is still much more to be done to achieve the SDG target of ending AIDS by 2030. AIDS is not over and given today’s environment, a new transformative approach is needed to mitigate risks and help us reach our targets.
Countries must make radical shifts to HIV programming and funding. The global HIV response cannot rely on domestic resources alone. The international community must come together to bridge the financing gap, support countries to close the remaining gaps in HIV prevention and treatment services, remove legal and social barriers, and empower communities to lead the way forward.
Visit the UNAIDS website to access all campaign materials related to World AIDS Day 2025.
On 1 December the World Health Organization (WHO) joins partners and communities to commemorate World AIDS Day 2025, under the theme “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response”, calling for sustained political leadership, international cooperation, and human-rights-centred approaches to end AIDS by 2030.
Visit the WHO website to access all campaign materials related to World AIDS Day 2025.
On World AIDS Day, Unitaid calls for renewed solidarity and sustained political and financial commitment. The tools to end HIV exist. The task now is to deliver them to everyone who needs them and to protect access in an increasingly uncertain world.
Read the full Unitaid statement here.
Source : UNAIDS
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