01/12/2025
WORLD AIDS DAY 2025
Theme: Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response
1st December 2025.
WHY THIS DAY MATTERS
World AIDS Day reminds us that the fight against HIV is not over.
It is a call to renew our commitment to prevention, treatment, support, and equality for all.
This year's World AIDS Day reflects major concerns: Which include, funding cuts, service disruptions, and rising vulnerabilities despite past progress.
WHO and UNAIDS are calling for sustained political leadership, international cooperation, and rights-centred approaches.
Current HIV / AIDS Statistics
As of end of 2024, about 40.8 million people are living with HIV.
In 2024, 1.3 million people acquired HIV globally.
630,000 deaths were due to HIV-related causes in 2024.
There is strong momentum in some areas (e.g., new science, long-acting treatments), but declines were not sufficient to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
KEY FOCUS AREAS FOR 2025
🔹 Strengthening HIV services after global disruptions
🔹 Expanding access to HIV testing & treatment
🔹 Promoting youth awareness & participation
🔹 Ending stigma and discrimination
🔹 Supporting community-led HIV programs
🔹 Encouraging innovations like self-testing & long-acting PrEP
IMPORTANT MESSAGES
✔ Know Your Status — Early testing saves lives.
✔ Treatment Works — ART leads to viral suppression and healthier living.
✔ HIV is Preventable — Prevention tools are available and effective.
✔ Stigma Hurts — Respect, support, and compassion save lives.
✔ Communities Matter — Strong community action strengthens the HIV response.
*HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE*
➡ Get tested for HIV
➡ Encourage your friends & loved ones to know their status
➡ Support people living with HIV
➡ Attend awareness programs
➡ Share correct information about HIV
➡ Promote safer practices and healthy living
REMEMBER
- HIV is not a death sentence.
- With treatment, people living with HIV can live long, healthy lives.
- Together, we can end AIDS.
📢 CALL TO ACTION
Get Tested. Get Treated. End Stigma.
Together, we transform the HIV response.
