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G20 Statement sets out actions to protect public health by fighting inequalities. Experts say the inequality-pandemic cycle can be broken.

The Ministerial Statement issued from the G20 Ministerial in Polokwane has set out concrete actions to protect public health by fighting inequalities. The statement details key global and national ...
UNAIDS

Report: inequality is making pandemics more likely, more deadly and more costly

High levels of inequality, within and between countries, are making the world more vulnerable to pandemics, making pandemics more economically disruptive and deadly, and making them last longer; ...
UNAIDS

Breaking the inequality-pandemic cycle: Building true health security — Findings and recommendations of the Global Council

Over the last two years, the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics undertook research, reviewed evidence and engaged in policy forums around the world. These efforts revealed that high ...
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Upcoming launch of new report by Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics, showing how inequalities drive current and future pandemics and what leaders need to do to ...

A new report by the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics, will be launched on 3 November in Johannesburg - and worldwide online - showing the danger of inequalities that are prolonging ...
UNAIDS

South Africa charts a new frontier by rolling out a twice-yearly injection which is almost 100% effective in preventing HIV

Through a US$ 29 million grant, South Africa will receive enough medicine to provide HIV prevention to 450 000 people at high ...
UNAIDS

Germany steps up support to UNAIDS amidst HIV funding crisis

At the World Health Summit last week in Berlin, Germany announced an additional €2.5 million in core funding to UNAIDS, bringing its total core contribution for 2025 to €5.5 million. Germany also ...
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UN80 Secretary-General's report - UNAIDS statement

GENEVA, 19 September 2025—The United Nations Secretary-General has put forward UN reform proposals in his new UN80 progress report, Shifting Paradigms: United to Deliver, which UNAIDS plans to discuss ...
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UNAIDS welcomes US announcement to expand access to medicine to prevent HIV and urges greater global ambition to reach all in need

GENEVA, 5 September 2025—UNAIDS welcomes the announcement by the US State Department that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will be supporting an initiative by the Global Fund to ...
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As HIV infections soar due to injecting drug use, harm reduction should be a priority in Fiji

This story first appeared in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025 report. Kalesi Volatabu, founder of DrugFree World Fiji, breaks the ice at drug awareness sessions by sharing her shocking story. When ...
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Executive summary — 2025 Global AIDS Update — AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform

A historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress unless countries can make radical shifts to HIV programming and funding. The report highlights the impact that the sudden, large ...
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The cost of inaction: The cost of not realizing the sexual and reproductive health and rights (including HIV) of young people in Zimbabwe and South Africa

UNAIDS uses ‘cost of inaction’ as an indicator of the negative impact on the lives of people and communities of not investing resources to end AIDS. This issue is particularly significant with regard ...