World AIDS Day 2025

This statement is jointly released by Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP), Seven Alliance (a consortium of Asia-Pacific networks: APCOM, APN+, APNSW, APTN, ICWAP, NAPUD, Youth LEAD), and World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) on World AIDS Day 2025.

On 1 December 2025, communities and civil society from across Asia Pacific commemorate World AIDS Day with an emphatic call to world leaders and decision-makers to stand in solidarity with key and vulnerable populations in “Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response”!

HIV remains a major global public health issue today. In 2024, 1.3 million people acquired HIV and 630,000 people died from AIDS-related causes, averaging one death every minute globally. TB was the leading cause of death for people with HIV, with about 150,000 people dying of HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB). Low and middle-income countries (LMICs) bore the overwhelming majority of HIV cases, with around 64% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) located in Africa and 17% in Asia Pacific. That same year, around one-third of the 6.9 million PLHIV in the Asia-Pacific region did not receive antiretroviral treatment (ART) — marking a serious gap in our progress to achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets. HIV is still rapidly escalating in countries such as the Philippines which has the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in Asia Pacific with a 543% increase in new infections from 2010–2023 and where, alarmingly, one-third of new infections occurred among young people aged 15-24.

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