UNAIDS is at @icasa2025! We are calling: ✅for political leadership, sustained financing and resilient service delivery solutions, ✅for equitable and affordable access to breakthrough medicines, ✅on African leaders to strengthen and sustain national HIV responses.

@UNAIDS_ESA @EducPlus2025 @icasa2025 @UNICEF @UNFPA @UNESCO @UN_Women At the opening of the Women’s Networking Zone at @icasa2025, Angeli Achrekar (@AchrekarAngeli), UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, urged women to stand together, and keep communities at the centre. “The power is here — now we take it into the world.”

@UNAIDS_ESA The Education Plus Young Women’s Leadership Hub launched the Global Manifesto of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), co-created by over 1000 AGYW from 32 countries across Africa, MENA, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe.

Anne Githuku-Shongwe, UNAIDS Regional Director for Eastern & Southern Africa (@UNAIDS_ESA), visited the #ICASA2025 Community Village, listening to communities’ experience, challenges and resilience, and reaffirming that their leadership is central to the HIV response.

Susan Muwanse Kasedde, UNAIDS Regional Director for Central & Western Africa, joined the opening of the #ICASA2025 Community Village, honoring the leadership of communities & calling for inclusion, access to prevention and treatment, & the dignity they have long fought to protect

The HIV movement is a true movement of collaboration & partnership. All stakeholders - govts, communities, donors, scientists and more - are all hands-on deck, pushing the response forward and holding each other to account. Hear @GlobalFund ED, @PeterASands at #WorldAIDSDay2025

Day 3 at #ICASA2025 is underway! Stay tuned for live updates from UNAIDS, straight from the ground.

@unicef_aids @OAFLAD @Winnie_Byanyima @D_Moraa @AchrekarAngeli At #ICASA2025 Global Alliance event, partners emphasized the need to bring HIV services closer to children, by integrating them into sexual health & antenatal care. They also called for clearer ways to track progress & for country-led plans that turn commitments into real action.

Thank you, President @JDMahama for meeting, and my thanks to 🇬🇭 for hosting #ICASA2025. I greatly appreciate your acknowledgement of the vital role @UNAIDS plays in the global HIV response, and your commitment to end AIDS by 2030 and to prioritising sustainability for health and

I commended President @JDMahama @GhanaPresidency for championing the #AccraReset, a bold framework to boost African ownership and financing of our health systems. A vital step toward true sovereignty in health and development.

Africa’s HIV response stands at a critical moment. We cannot allow decades of progress—and millions of hopes—to slip backwards. Across our continent, communities are mobilising with strength, but they need us to match their courage with decisive action. As we move toward

UNAIDS welcomes the new US-Kenya agreement to advance progress to end AIDS and strengthen health systems. The US commits to $1.6B over five years to reinforce Kenya’s national HIV and health response, while Kenya commits to $850M in domestic funding to sustain the agreement.

Shared responsibility and global solidarity have been the foundation of the historic reductions in new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths.​ This must continue!​ https://t.co/f7Uq6I81bq

More countries are committing to increase their HIV response budgets. But even with political will, many nations still face serious constraints, including crippling debt repayments, that limit their ability to invest in their people & their health systems. 📽️ @Winnie_Byanyima

@unicef_aids @OAFLAD @Winnie_Byanyima @D_Moraa Speaking to journalists at #ICASA2025, UNAIDS Deputy ED @AchrekarAngeli highlighted the growing hope across Africa: “We’ve seen countries increase their own investments in the HIV response and ensure people have access to the treatments they need.”

The Africa Group has strongly reminded the world that AIDS is not over, and that in this last mile we need global solidarity and continued multisectoral UN leadership and coordination to #endAIDS by 2030. @UNAIDS #ICASA2025

@unicef_aids @OAFLAD @Winnie_Byanyima Attending #ICASA2025 in Accra? Join us now for the opening of our booth! Hear from UNAIDS leadership, civil society leaders, and our young HIV advocate @D_Moraa. Share your message of hope for the HIV response by adding it to our Wall of Hope. 💜

@unicef_aids At the #ICASA2025 @OAFLAD event, UNAIDS ED @Winnie_Byanyima called on leaders to protect the rights of adolescent girls and young women, ensuring they are protected from sexual violence, free from the risk of new HIV infections, and empowered to access prevention tools safely.

UNAIDS & @unicef_aids co-hosted a session on youth-led innovations in HIV and shared lessons from West and Central Africa. Partners shared inspiring stories on Youth-Led Monitoring initiatives, improving maternal health, showing the transformative work in the region. #ICASA2025

Day 2 at #ICASA2025 is underway! Stay tuned for live updates from UNAIDS, straight from the ground.

The world was closer than ever to ending AIDS as a public health threat. But when the US abruptly halted all HIV funding, and other donors reduced their contributions, the global response was pushed into immediate crisis. The AIDS response must be protected.