The Executive Director of UNAIDS Winnie Byanyima made the call during the African AIDS conference ICASA in Accra, Ghana saying “ending AIDS is a political choice”.
ACCRA/GENEVA, 10 December 2025 — African leaders can put the continent back on track to end AIDS by 2030 by choosing to resource the HIV response, protect human rights, and seize the opportunity of new innovations was the strong message brought by UNAIDS to the 23rd International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA).
A sudden, rapid acceleration of cuts to international HIV financing, alongside spiralling debt burdens and a regression of human rights, is threatening fragile progress in reducing AIDS deaths and HIV infections – with HIV prevention and community-led services worst hit.
UNAIDS warned African leaders that the determined, organized and well-funded backlash against human rights and gender equality is pushing people further away from life-saving HIV services. The number of countries criminalising same-sex relationships has increased this year for the first time since UNAIDS began reporting.
Read the full UNAIDS call to action here.
Source : UNAIDS
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