This World AIDS Day 2025, Lindii Peace Foundation (LPF) joins other partners around the world in raising awareness and calling for urgent action to safeguard progress in the global HIV response.
This year has revealed a critical challenge: sudden funding cuts in 2025 disrupted HIV services across many countries, placing millions of people, especially in low-income and crisis-affected communities, at risk. These disruptions threaten decades of progress and amplify the vulnerabilities faced by people already living through conflict, displacement, and limited access to healthcare.
In 2024, the world achieved significant milestones:
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31.6 million people accessed lifesaving antiretroviral therapy.
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2.5 million people used HIV prevention medicines.
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Scientific advances continued to protect the health of people living with HIV, including pregnant women and infants.
But in 2025, abrupt funding reductions weakened these efforts, affecting prevention, treatment, and community support systems. For regions like North-East Nigeria, where insecurity and displacement already limit access to care, the consequences are even more severe.
The impact is especially profound on:
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Adolescent girls and young women, who accounted for 4,000 new infections every week in sub-Saharan Africa in 2024.
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Key populations, where HIV is rising fastest and where services remain a lifeline.
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Low-income countries, whose limited resources and debt constraints make sustaining HIV programmes extremely challenging without global support.
Despite these disruptions, communities around the world have shown resilience.
At LPF, we believe that no disruption should deny anyone the right to health, dignity, or life-saving care. We reaffirm our commitment to:
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Supporting vulnerable and displaced communities with accurate information and access to services.
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Strengthening local health systems to remain resilient in times of crisis.
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Advocating for sustained global and domestic financing for HIV prevention and treatment.
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Standing with adolescents, women, key populations, and all those whose lives depend on continuous HIV services
Together, We Must Rise Above Disruption
Ending AIDS requires investment, solidarity, and unwavering commitment. LPF stands with other partners in calling on global partners, governments, and communities to protect progress and ensure that every person, regardless of circumstance, has access to the tools and care they need.
oin the global conversation:
#LPF #WorldAIDSDay2025 #EndAIDS
LPF is Restoring dignity and strengthening lives.
