AIDS 2026: UNAIDS special report publishes data to 2025

On 27 July 2026, UNAIDS released a special report for AIDS 2026, updating aggregated data on progress towards global HIV goals for 2030.

Published as a set of 29 slides, the report notes that despite new infections falling by 42% since 2010 and global HIV-related deaths falling by 57%, the world missed the 2025 targets.

Also, although many countries are still on track to reach the 90% reductions, new diagnoses persist in many key populations and they have increased by more than 20% in at least 20 countries over the same time.

Although 14 new countries reported meeting 95:95:95 targets in 2025, significant disparities in viral suppression are still also reported across regions.

Data is also provided on discrimination and legislation criminalising people living with HIV and the extent of community responses.

Treatment access and drug pricing is covered in an important slide (#20, Figure 16) showing the average unit prices per region are significantly higher for second-line ART (compared to first-line) – and also that prices are generally higher from domestic sources than paid by international donors.

Progress in integrating TB and HIV services has also dropped from 70% before COVID to being stable at 60% since.

The remaining slides address funding cuts and country responses, including that 55 countries plan to increase domestic funding for HIV. However, only six of these plan an increase of more than 10%.

The report concludes with an optimistic and ambitious structure for being able to meet the 2026 political declaration to end AIDS by 2030.

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This report is crucial for providing data on these important global targets.

However, the optimism doesn’t reflect the impact of funding cuts that dominated most of the sessions at AIDS 2026.

Many funding cuts have decimated networks of community clinics that played an essential role in connecting to and retaining key populations in HIV programmes.