UNAIDS Results

The collective results of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in 2022-2023 saved lives and helped further accelerate progress towards the 2025 global AIDS targets and ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Providing multisectoral support and mobilizing stronger political commitment from countries, the Joint Programme clearly demonstrated its value added and remained a catalytic force in the HIV response focusing on reducing HIV-related inequalities. Using a people-centred and human rights-based approach in all its works, it empowered communities, addressed policy barriers, generated and supported use of programmatic, epidemiological and financing HIV data and guided billions of US dollars for effective and more sustainable HIV responses worldwide. In a challenging context, the Joint Programme demonstrated again its high flexibility to optimize resources and respond to evolving demands and needs.

The UNAIDS Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework 2022–2026 (UBRAF) guides the operationalization of the Joint Programme’s support for the implementation of the Global AIDS Strategy. With constant prioritization to optimize resources in an evolving context and informed by latest evidence and gaps, the Joint Programme has further sharpened its focus to support countries to accelerate progress towards the global AIDS targets.

Global AIDS Strategy 3 priorities & UBRAF outcomes	Joint Programme priorities		Global AIDS Strategy & UBRAF 10 result areas
Maximize equitable and equal access to HIV services and solutions	Advance progress on HIV prevention Accelerate access to HIV treatment and new health technologies	Promote decriminalization, human rights and gender equality to support access to HIV prevention and treatment services	RA 1: HIV prevention RA 3: Paediatric AIDS, vertical transmission RA 2: HIV treatment
Break down barriers to achieving HIV outcomes	Promote community-led HIV responses, including community-led services and monitoring		RA 4: Community-led responses RA 5: Human rights RA6: Gender equality RA 7: Young people
Fully resource and sustain efficient HIV responses and integrate them into systems for health, social protection, humanitarian settings and pandemic responses.	Ensure equitable financing and sustaining the HIV response		RA 8: Fully funded HIV response RA 9: Integration and social protection RA 10: Humanitarian settings and pandemics

Progress against all four priorities is undergirded by actions aimed at ending HIV-inequalities, including gender inequalities, protecting human rights, removing punitive laws and policies and other social and structural barriers and ending stigma and discrimination.

The Performance Monitoring Report summarizes the Joint Programme’s results in 2022-2023 towards the UBRAF outcomes, which contribute to the 2021-2026 Global AIDS Strategy’s three strategic priorities: maximized equitable and equal access to HIV services; broken down barriers to achieve HIV outcomes; and sustained and integrated HIV responses.

The global HIV response saved over 24 million lives

24.1 million AIDS-related deaths averted by antiretroviral therapy (1996-2023)

Over 60% decline in new HIV infections (1996-2023)

30.6 million people receive live-saving treatment (end 2023)

86% of people

living with HIV knew their HIV status. 89% of them received HIV treatment

15 countries
de-criminalized consensual same-sex sexual acts 2016-2023

60%
of HIV resources domestically funded in 2023

2022-2023 UNAIDS Key results

More than 95% of countries implemented the “treat-all” approach for HIV, 116 countries have adopted recommended first-line HIV treatment regimens, and 102 countries have adopted self-testing policies

83 countries received technical and/or implementation support to scale up combination HIV prevention programmes with specific focus on key populations, adolescent and youth

75 countries have a national plan for the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV and implement the treat all policy for pregnant and breast-feeding women

69 countries supported to reduce stigma & discrimination & 38 countries joined the Global Partnership for action to eliminate all forms of HIV-related stigma & discrimination.

69 countries supported to remove or amend punitive and discriminatory laws and policies, and/or develop protective ones affecting the HIV response

50 countries with stronger gender expertise and capacity to further integrate gender equality into the national HIV response

32 countries used costed plans to expand and institutionalize youth-led HIV responses

81 countries reviewed, assessed and/or updated their National Strategic Plan on HIV & 32 countries conducted HIV financing assessments

70 countries supported to establish HIV antiretroviral services financed as part of the overall systems

55 countries include priority HIV services in national pandemic preparedness and response plans

46 countries implement interventions/services for key populations in humanitarian settings

Leadership, partnership, advocacy country support & accountability

State-of the art strategic information guide the global response, including HIV estimates from 174 countries

84 countries reinforced the meaningful participation between people living with HIV, key and other priority populations and government institutions

74 countries supported to advance expansion of community-led monitoring

20 high-level political meetings and their outcome documents reflect HIV priorities

Leverage the power of partnerships with communities, governments, and other key stakeholders, including close complementarity/ synergies with Global Fund & PEPFAR