An AIDS-free generation is within reach, but not guaranteed
Key takeaways
- New tools and community-led care can save lives, but only if governments sustain the global HIV response.
- UNICEF Associate Director for HIV and Health.
- Over the past decade, AIDS-related deaths among children fell by almost 70 percent, and the number of adolescent girls acquiring HIV halved.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
New tools and community-led care can save lives, but only if governments sustain the global HIV response.
UNICEF Associate Director for HIV and Health.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A laboratory technician processes HIV test samples on February 19, 2025 in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines [Ezra Acayan/Getty Images]For more than four decades, the global AIDS response has been powered by grief, rage, courage and determination. Families buried loved ones long before their time. Communities confronted discrimination and built networks of care when the silence was deafening. Scientific breakthroughs and community-driven innovation transformed HIV from a near-certain death sentence into a chronic, manageable condition. The result is one of the greatest public health achievements of the past half century. That success is now under threat.