Geneva, 10 December 2025 – This Human Rights Day the global HIV response is facing its most challenging moment in decades.
A new UNAIDS report released last month ahead of World AIDS Day 2025, Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response details the far-reaching consequences of international funding reductions. Millions of people have lost access to HIV prevention services and the critical support to access life-saving treatment services. A deepening funding crisis, geopolitical fragmentation, and rollback of human rights protections have disrupted services and jeopardized decades of progress.
Punitive laws, stigma and discrimination continue to block access to HIV services for the most marginalized communities: women and girls, LGBTQ+ people, sex workers, people who use drugs, and incarcerated populations. When rights are denied, health is denied. When people fear arrest or violence for seeking care, the epidemic grows. Protecting and promoting human rights is therefore not optional, it is essential to ending AIDS.
Read the full UNAIDS statement here.
Source : UNAIDS
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