A new report from UNAIDS, the agency working towards ending HIV and AIDS, has revealed that an investment of $29 billion a year to HIV response in low- and middle-income countries by the year 2025 will help us get back on track to eliminate the virus as a public health threat by 2030.

The agency adopted the new Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026 during a special session held on March 24 and 25, 2021. The new strategy updates the 2016 targets for 2020, which were unmet. The three priorities mentioned in the strategy include maximizing equal access to comprehensive people-centered HIV services; breaking down legal and societal barriers to attaining HIV outcomes; and sustaining HIV responses and incorporating them into systems for health, social protection and humanitarian settings… (UN, March 29, 2021)