In 2021, at the United Nations General Assembly on HIV, member states committed to a set of global targets that would set countries on the path to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. These targets were to be reached by 2025.
In March 2024, the UNAIDS Executive Director established a Global Task Team of experts across government, civil society, donors, academic and public health institutes, to recommend a new set of global targets for the HIV response beyond 2025.
These targets define what is required to reach the global goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 and will be proposed for adoption by United Nations Member States at the 2026 United Nations High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS. Finalization of the recommended targets will be followed by the development of the next Global AIDS Strategy that will outline how these targets can be achieved.
The 2030 HIV targets aim to:
- Generate commitment and action in all countries of the world.
- Ensure continuity with the existing Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026 where evidence remains relevant and existing 2025 targets have not been achieved.
- Define the highest priorities for the HIV response and simplify accountability by reducing the number of targets as compared with the set of targets for 2025.
- Define a path towards a more integrated effort to achieve the goal of ending AIDS alongside other relevant SDGs and global health targets, such as maternal and child health (MCH), sexual and reproductive health (SRH), tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), cervical cancer and education.
The targets support countries to achieve three goals by 2030
The targets aim to support all countries to achieve three goals by 2030, aligned with SDG target 3.3 on ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. These three overarching goals include:
- Reduce new HIV infections by 90% from 2010 and a continued 5% decline per year after 2030.
- Reduce AIDS-related deaths by 90% from 2010.
- Secure the sustainability of the HIV response through 2030 and beyond.
The inclusion of sustainability is critical to the HIV response and is supported by targets on continued decline in new HIV infections after 2030, on financial resources, and on societal enablers and community support.
Accountability for the targets
Progress against the targets be monitored through country reporting within the Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) framework, which will be updated to align with the new set of targets. UNAIDS will release these data annually through the AIDSinfo website (https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/) and the Global AIDS Update Report.