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United Nations High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS concludes with strong support for a bold political declaration for ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030

The High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS was convened by the President of the General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock with the ...
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United Nations High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS opens as UNAIDS urges countries to firmly commit to ending AIDS by 2030

GENEVA, 22 June 2026—The United Nations High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS opened today at a moment of incertitude for the global AIDS response. Decades of progress have delivered what once seemed ...
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"I am excited": 21-year-old Jane Mndebele becomes the first South African to receive lenacapavir

History was made in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa on Friday, 5 June, as 21-year-old Jane Mndebele became the first ...
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Cambodia reaches 95–95–95 targets, showing the power of community leadership

Together, these efforts have brought Cambodia to achieve the 95–95–95 targets: 95% of people living with HIV know their ...
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Western African youth living with HIV network hitting major roadblocks

Three years ago, Adjovi Husunukpe co-founded the Western and Central African HIV+ Youth Network (RAJ+AOC) to connect with her ...
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UNAIDS welcomes expanded rollout of HIV prevention medicine and calls for urgent action to ensure equitable and affordable global access

GENEVA, 15 April 2026—UNAIDS commends the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and the United States for their commitment to further increase access to long-acting HIV prevention medication. In a ...
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HIV Prevention 2030 Global Access Framework

This 2030 Prevention access framework focuses on one of those top-line targets, which covers primary prevention and requires that 90% of people in need of HIV prevention are using effective prevention ...
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‘Olimbi - Mother Courage’ HIV documentary wins Geneva film festival Impact Award

“After twenty years of leading the HIV fight in Albania, I have never won any awards in my country and here I win this big prize,” said Olimbi Hoxhaj, the protagonist of the documentary. “This is ...
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Report: inequality is making pandemics more likely, more deadly and more costly

‘Inequality-pandemic cycle’ must be broken to achieve health security JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 3 November 2025 — A report by world-leading economists, public health experts, and political leaders ...
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UNAIDS welcomes the announcement of new deals to make new HIV prevention medicines available and affordable for people in need

The deals represent a massive price reduction from USD 28 000 to just USD 40 per person per year for medicine that is almost 100% effective in preventing HIV. NEW YORK/GENEVA, 24 September 2025—UNAIDS ...
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As HIV infections soar due to injecting drug use, harm reduction should be a priority in Fiji

This story first appeared in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025 report. Kalesi Volatabu, founder of DrugFree World Fiji, breaks the ice at drug awareness sessions by sharing her shocking story. When ...