23/10/2025
"๐ข๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ถ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ"
World AIDS Day 2025
The Department of Health โ Cordillera Center for Health Development (DOH-CAR), through the National AIDS, STI, and HIV Prevention and Control Program (NASPCP) and Project NAMNAMA, joins the world in marking World AIDS Day 2025 with the theme โOvercoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response.โ
This yearโs theme arrives at a crucial time. Across the world, communities continue to confront the consequences of funding cuts, disrupted health services, and laws that restrict access to essential HIV care. Decades of progress now face new challenges that threaten to undo the strides made in prevention, treatment, and awareness. Yet, despite these uncertainties, one truth remains constant: the HIV response endures because people choose to keep fighting.
They are the health workers who open their clinics each day with quiet determination, the advocates who refuse to let stigma define another generation, and the individuals living with HIV who embody courage and hope in the face of discrimination. Their strength reminds us that this response has never been only about medicine or statistics. It is about peopleโtheir lives, their dignity, and their right to be seen and cared for without judgment.
To transform the AIDS response is to envision a future built on empathy and equity. It means reimagining systems that serve everyone, regardless of who they are or where they come from. It calls for renewed political will, stronger community leadership, and a shared commitment to protect human rights and restore trust in public health.
Change begins when compassion meets action. Science gives us the tools to save lives, but it is our collective humanity that sustains the progress. Transformation is not simply about rebuilding what was lost; it is about creating something more just, inclusive, and enduring.
As UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima reminds us, โ๐๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต.โ
This World AIDS Day, we honor the lives that have shaped this journeyโthe lives lost too soon, the lives lived with pride and resilience, and the lives still waiting for understanding and care. The path ahead remains long, but hope continues to light the way forward.
Together, we overcome. Together, we transform.
(Adopted from the UNAIDS)
Link: https://www.unaids.org/en/2025-world-aids-day