12/01/2025
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The commemoration of World AIDS Day, on 1 December 2025, is an important opportunity to highlight the impact that disenfranchised Qu**rs, Trans folks, and Peer Harm Reductionists have had on the response to AIDS as well as to showcase the resilience of communities stepping up to protect the gains made and drive the HIV response forward. Today is a time to memorialze those who suffered and died and continue to advocate for research, treatment, prevention, and the complete eradication of this disease.
In 2025, a historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress. HIV prevention services are severely disrupted. Community-led services, vital to reaching marginalized populations, are being deprioritized while the rise in punitive laws criminalizing same-sex relationships, gender identity, and drug use is amplifying the crisis, making HIV services inaccessible.
The global AIDS response has been upended in recent months but there is still much more to be done to achieve the target of ending AIDS by 2030. AIDS is not over and given today's environment, a harm reduction and transformative approach is needed to mitigate risks and help us reach that target for a better world, without fear for everyone.
This World AIDS Day, join us in calling for sustained political leadership, international cooperation, and human-rights-centred approaches to end AIDS by 2030.
