01/12/2025
Today marks World AIDS Day, a moment to reflect, honour progress and recognise the work still ahead.
�In the UK, we have committed to ending new HIV transmissions in the capital by 2030. Achieving that goal relies on collective responsibility: raising awareness, reducing stigma and ensuring consistent access to prevention and care.
This year’s theme, Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response, reflects the pressures facing HIV services. Funding cuts, service disruption and wider challenges in public health mean resilience and innovation are more important than ever. Community-led care, human-rights-centred approaches and renewed national cooperation will shape what happens next.
Digital tools now sit at the centre of that transformation.
Across the UK, online HIV self-testing, NHS digital triage pathways and sexual health platforms are widening access in ways that were not possible a decade ago. These digital entry points are helping services remain stable, accessible and inclusive, especially for people who may face stigma or have limited physical access to clinics.
Digital pathways are strengthening prevention and early diagnosis by:
• Increasing access to remote HIV self-testing through online ordering services, including the expanded 2025 self-sampling initiative.�• Allowing people to engage with services without needing to attend a clinic in person.�• Maintaining continuity of testing and prevention for communities affected by service disruption.
A modern HIV response must be digital, resilient and designed around real people and the barriers they face.
Technology is already helping more individuals test regularly, access PrEP and receive support when they need it most. At Signumology, we believe digital entry points are essential to a future where stigma is reduced, services are strengthened and the goal of zero new transmissions becomes a reality.
World AIDS Day is a powerful reminder that transforming the HIV response starts with meeting people where they are, and digital is making that possible.