Built on trust - Community-led HIV responses in Thailand
Sitting in front of his computer, Arm, communications lead at SWING, a community-led organization providing HIV and sexual health services for gay men, transgender people and sex workers in Thailand, scrolls through the digital campaigns he has created to make accessing HIV prevention more engaging.
UNAIDS Brazil and Africa Creative win award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
UNAIDS Brazil and Africa Creative have been awarded a Bronze Lion in the Social & Creator category at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for the Cover It campaign (Proibidão Protegidão, in Brazilian Portuguese), which uses the popularity of Brazilian funk music to expand the conversation on HIV prevention.
Western African youth living with HIV network hitting major roadblocks
Three years ago, Adjovi Husunukpe co-founded the Western and Central African HIV+ Youth Network (RAJ+AOC) to connect with her peers and strengthen youth-led advocacy in the HIV response. “We wanted to be heard at a national and international level as one,” she said.
Achieving and sustaining viral suppression among people living with HIV in Trinidad & Tobago
Civil society organisations play a critical role in the AIDS response, including facilitating access to HIV prevention and treatment services. The Medical Research Foundation (MRF), based in Trinidad & Tobago, is a perfect example of this.
Unlocking community actions in Uzbekistan
Civil society organizations in Uzbekistan help deliver peer-to-peer outreach, HIV testing, awareness-raising and prevention. As external funding for HIV declines in the land-locked country in Central Asia, it now faces a critical task: ensuring that prevention and community-led services are sustained.
HIV ‘Prevention Hangout’ expands information and HIV services at Brazil’s 2026 Salvador Carnival
During the 2026 Carnival in Salvador de Bahia—one of the largest street festivals in Brazil, which gathered around 12 million people—UNAIDS, the Municipal Health Secretariat of Salvador, Bahia, and the non-governmental organization Motirô BA provided HIV information, testing and prevention services to its participants through the “Rolê da Prevenção” initiative.
“Who will protect our young people?”
Noncedo Khumalo grew up in a country with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world, Eswatini—a country landlocked between South Africa and Mozambique. The 24-year-old has overcome her fair share of difficult times to make ends meet. The recent US funding cuts have now put her future in question.
An urgent call to support youth-led organizations
The survey also warns about the abrupt policy changes occurring as a consequence, including the integration of HIV-specific clinics into general health systems, and the surge of restrictive laws targeting organizations working on gender, diversity, and sexual and reproductive health and rights, using the term “foreign agent” to criminalize their work. These changes are causing the collapse of service delivery models and increased barriers to youth-led organizations, further reducing…
Championing the cause of women living with HIV in Cambodia
Em Ra disappears into the house twice, slipping past the shrine of flowers and incense by the front door. First, she brings out an old HIV magazine. She flips to a page of a small child, sitting on the back seat of a bike, looking straight into the camera. Next, she emerges with two framed photographs from a recent university graduation.
