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One quarter of people still lacking HIV treatment globally live in the region, while rising epidemics and financial pressure on prevention programmes threaten further progress RIO DE JANEIRO/BANGKOK, 27 July 2026—One quarter of all people globally who were still not receiving HIV treatment in 2025 lived in Asia and the Pacific, while an estimated 280,000 people acquired HIV in the region, according to new UNAIDS data released today. The findings are contained in United to end AIDS,… Read More
Asia-Pacific faces a dangerous financial squeeze that is undermining prevention and community support GENEVA/BANGKOK, 26 November 2025—The AIDS response has suffered its most serious setback in decades, warns a new UNAIDS report released ahead of World AIDS Day (1 December). Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response details how a sharp fall in international funding is hitting low- and middle-income countries hardest and threatening to reverse hard-won gains.
WHO and UNAIDS convene partners to explore solutions to the Region’s HIV crisis NADI, Fiji, 22 October 2025 — The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific and UNAIDS Asia-Pacific have convened a range of stakeholders here to confront the Region’s HIV crisis amid growing national epidemics. Held during the seventy-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific and at the request of the Fiji Ministry… Read More
Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response – World AIDS Day 2025 The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response.”
This case study is featured in the 2025 Global AIDS Update “We will focus on treatment!”
PORT MORESBY, 26 June, 2025—New data reveal alarming rise in cases, particularly among women and children, with mother-to-child transmission rates critically high.
MANILA, 4 June, 2025–The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Philippines calls for immediate and intensified action to address the country’s rapidly escalating HIV epidemic, supporting the call of Department of Health for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to sign the pending Executive Order declaring HIV as an urgent public health concern requiring nationwide response.
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