Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

UNAIDS' Data Book - HIV country profiles provide an overview of the latest available data on the HIV epidemic and response in the countries from 2024.

This report shows that world leaders can fulfil their promise to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, and in so doing prevent millions of AIDS-related deaths, prevent millions of new HIV infections, and ensure the almost 40 million people living with HIV have healthy, full lives.

Through powerful case studies and new data, the report shows how some countries are already on the right path—and how all countries can get on it.
 

The purpose of the new HIV response sustainability approach and the Roadmap is to secure the future of the HIV response, though not in isolation
from other priorities. The existing HIV response also must be transformed.

Many of the pertinent analyses, actions, and transformations to be undertaken require clear, well-crafted steps towards stronger health systems, betterintegrated services for HIV, stronger country ownership and more streamlined donor contributions to strengthen country systems.
 

As progress lags in achieving most of the health targets of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3), efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 stand out as a beacon of hope. Since 2010, annual new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths have declined globally by 38% and 51%, respectively.
 

On 1 January 2024, the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS)  published an article describing the findings from UNAIDS and co-authors on new HIV infections among key populations1 and their sexual partners in 2010 and 2022, by world region. For the first time, UNAIDS and partners have used expanded data sources and refined, dynamic HIV transmission models to make estimates of new HIV infections with time trends within each country and key population.

In 2019, UNAIDS published Health, rights and drugs: harm reduction, decriminalization and zero discrimination for people who use drugs which laid out the irrefutable evidence that people who use drugs were being left behind in the HIV response. The report demonstrated how the war on drugs was failing in its efforts to reduce the supply and demand of illicit substances, while at the same time causing untold harm to the health and well-being of people who use drugs. In 2024, five years later, the data show that people who inject drugs are still being left behind in the response.