UNAIDS Results

The collective results of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in 2025 saved lives and helped further accelerate progress towards the 2025 global AIDS targets and ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Providing multisectoral support and mobilizing stronger political commitment from countries, the Joint Programme clearly demonstrated its value added and remained a catalytic force in the HIV response focusing on reducing HIV-related inequalities. Using a people-centred and human rights-based approach in all its works, it empowered communities, addressed policy barriers, generated and supported use of programmatic, epidemiological and financing HIV data and guided billions of US dollars for effective and more sustainable HIV responses worldwide. In a challenging context, the Joint Programme demonstrated again its high flexibility to optimize resources and respond to evolving demands and needs.

The UNAIDS Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework 2022–2026 (UBRAF) guides the operationalization of the Joint Programme’s support for the implementation of the Global AIDS Strategy. With constant prioritization to optimize resources in an evolving context and informed by latest evidence and gaps, the Joint Programme has further sharpened its focus to support countries to accelerate progress towards the global AIDS targets.

2021-2026 Global AIDS Strategy 3 priorities & UBRAF outcomes	Joint Programme priorities		2021-2026 Global AIDS Strategy & UBRAF 10 result areas
Maximize equitable and equal access to HIV services and solutions	Advance progress on HIV prevention Accelerate access to HIV treatment and new health technologies	Promote decriminalization, human rights and gender equality to support access to HIV prevention and treatment services	RA 1: HIV prevention RA 3: Paediatric AIDS, vertical transmission RA 2: HIV treatment
Break down barriers to achieving HIV outcomes	Promote community-led HIV responses, including community-led services and monitoring		RA 4: Community-led responses RA 5: Human rights RA6: Gender equality RA 7: Young people
Fully resource and sustain efficient HIV responses and integrate them into systems for health, social protection, humanitarian settings and pandemic responses.	Ensure equitable financing and sustaining the HIV response		RA 8: Fully funded HIV response RA 9: Integration and social protection RA 10: Humanitarian settings and pandemics

Progress against all four priorities is undergirded by actions aimed at ending HIV-inequalities, including gender inequalities, protecting human rights, removing punitive laws and policies and other social and structural barriers and ending stigma and discrimination.

The Performance Monitoring Report summarizes the Joint Programme’s results towards realizing the three UBRAF outcomes, which contribute to the 2021-2026 Global AIDS Strategy’s three strategic priorities: maximized equitable and equal access to HIV services; broken down barriers to achieve HIV outcomes; and sustained and integrated HIV responses.

The 2025 Performance Monitoring Report (PMR) captures the contributions of the Joint Programme to the HIV response and reflects its unique role, critical leadership, adaptability and resilience despite important shifts in global political, financial contexts and priorities. It features the Joint Programme’s work and results in mitigating the impact of the funding shifts with illustrative examples at country, regional, and global levels. Moreover, the PMR showcases the Joint Programme’s development of tools, policy briefs and methods for the elaboration of Sustainability Roadmaps for national HIV responses, as well as its support to countries to produce these roadmaps and use them as they navigate funding volatility and progressively transition away from high dependence on external financing. Above all, the 2025 PMR highlights the indispensable role of communities, and the continued relevance of a coordinated, rights based, evidence-informed and multisectoral approach to the global HIV response, especially during difficult times.

The global HIV response saved nearly 27 million lives

26.9 million AIDS-related deaths averted thanks to antiretroviral therapy (1996-2024)

31.6 million people receive life-saving treatment (by end 2024)

Over 61% decline in new HIV infections (1996-2024)

87% of people

living with HIV knew their HIV status, and 89% of them were receiving HIV treatment in 2024

15 countries
decriminalized consensual same-sex sexual acts 2016-2024

60%
of HIV funding was domestically funded in 2024

UNAIDS Key results

79 countries supported to scale up combination HIV prevention programmes

Technical support and new guidelines helped accelerate roll-out of long-acting prevention methods including cabotegravir, lenacapavir and dapivirine vaginal ring

73 countries have a national plan for the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV and implement the treat all policy for pregnant and breast-feeding women

79 countries supported for the incorporation and expansion of community-led HIV responses

66 countries supported to remove or amend punitive and discriminatory laws and policies affecting the HIV response

68 countries supported to reduce HIV-related stigma & discrimination

46 countries supported now have stronger gender expertise and capacity to further integrate gender equality into the national HIV response

72 countries supported to establish HIV antiretroviral services financed as part of the overall systems

55 countries supported to improve allocative efficiency, and 25 countries supported for HIV response sustainability roadmaps

41 countries supported to implement interventions/services for key populations in humanitarian settings

Leadership, partnership, advocacy country support & accountability

State-of the art strategic information guide the global response, with HIV estimates from 182 countries

74 countries supported to review, assess and/or update their national strategic plan on HIV

In 75 countries, the UNSDCF integrates priorities on ending HIV-related inequalities and ending AIDS

Further leveraged the power of partnerships with communities, governments, networks & other key stakeholders, including close synergies with Global Fund & GHSD