On 10th of July, UNAIDS launched its 2025 Global AIDS Update, “AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform”, which shows that a historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress unless countries can make radical shifts to HIV programming and funding.
This report focuses on one of these essentials—the central role of human rights as it relates to ensuring access to HIV prevention and treatment services and addressing the structural determinants that increase vulnerability to HIV.
This guidance acknowledges that an HIV-related human rights crisis refers to a specific situation that is characterized by a clear and pressing danger or an actual shift, such as an event, or series of events, that leads to unsafety or potential harm. It emphasizes the need for an urgent and immediate emergency response to prevent, or mitigate the harm caused by the crisis.
The latest Philippine HIV estimates show that by the end of 2023, there will be 189,000 estimated People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in the country.
Of the estimated PLHIV, 119,145 (63%) cases have been diagnosed or laboratory-confirmed and currently living or not reported to have died, as of December 2023.
The evidence supporting U = U addresses the drivers of criminalization of HIV transmission by challenging the outdated norms that HIV infection is a death sentence and that HIV is easily transmitted to sexual partners.
HIV stigma and criminalization remain key barriers in many countries to reaching the targets in the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS and the Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026.
As the UN's only cosponsored Joint Programme, UNAIDS has spearheaded a coordinated, multisectoral HIV response for nearly 30 years.
The Global Fund strategy for 2023-2028 has three mutually reinforcing contributory objectives. One critical objective is Maximizing the Engagement and Leadership of Most Affected Communities to Leave No One Behind, which specifically applies to GC7.
ANNOUNCING THE ASIA PACIFIC WORLD AIDS DAY REPORT LAUNCH AND SHARE FAIR
Please invite communities of people living with HIV, key populations and other civil society organizations in your country to join our virtual World AIDS Day share fair. They will be briefed on the 2023 World AIDS Day report and learn from other community leaders about strategies for stronger social media and news media engagement to advance their advocacy agendas.
DATE: Thursday 30th November, 2023
TIME: 1PM Bangkok time
The assessment serves to document and review the situation in relation to the current human rights and gender related programmatic responses being implemented across the country, aimed at reducing barriers to services for key populations.
The Bangladesh government is committed to limit the prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among key populations (KPs) at a low level. The current mapping, size estimation, and behavioral survey was conducted among the KP groups, namely, female sex workers (FSW), people who inject drugs (PWID), and men who have sex with men(MSM/MSW). Regular updates of the estimated KP size and their mapping are important for planning, priority setting, designing effective interventions, resource allocation, and monitoring.
