Since the framework was launched, UNAIDS and partners have reported annually on progress towards achieving these targets. Since the deadline for achieving the targets passed in December 2020, this is the final Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free progress report. Although the targets were global, partners identified 23 countries for intensified focus under the framework. This report specifically highlights progress against the targets in focus countries. Read press release| www.unaids.org
The AIDS response may be in crisis, but we have the power to transform| www.unaids.org
This year’s Zero Discrimination Day is an especially poignant one.| www.unaids.org
More than 140 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates today called on the candidates to be the next German chancellor Annalena Baerbock, Olaf Scholz, and Armin Laschet to declare themselves in favour of waiving intellectual property rules for COVID 19 vaccines and transferring vaccine technologies, and “to make these the policies of any future coalition| www.unaids.org
Latest AIDS data, HIV data. Global HIV statistics. 39.9 million [36.1 million–44.6 million] people globally were living with HIV in 2023. 1.3 million [1 million–1.7 million] people became newly infected with HIV in 2023. 630 000 [500 000–820 000] people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2023. 30.7 million people [27–31.9 million] were accessing antiretroviral therapy in| www.unaids.org