HIV/AIDS

News14 October 2025

Joint statement on the proposed sunsetting of UNAIDS - Special session of the Programme Coordinating Board (PCB)

IDPC joined INPUD and HRI in expressing deep concern over plans to “sunset” UNAIDS, warning that its premature closure would endanger progress on harm reduction and human rights.

News14 October 2025

Canada must show leadership for Global Fund’s 8th replenishment - Open letter

IDPC joins civil society worldwide in calling on Canada to reaffirm its leadership in global health by pledging CAD$1.37 billion to the Global Fund, saving millions of lives and strengthening global resilience.

Events

Towards a Gender-Inclusive drug policy: Beijing +30

22 September 2025

At UNGA 80, global leaders unite to expose how punitive drug policies harm women’s health and equality and to advance gender-responsive, rights-based reforms that uphold justice and health.

Publications3 October 2025

Shifting paradigms: United to Deliver - UN80 Initiative - Report of the Secretary-General

UNSG António Guterres proposes a restructuring of drugs, development, human rights, and HIV bodies, raising questions about oversight, civil society participation, and programme continuity.

News24 September 2025

With the HIV response in crisis, UNAIDS must not be sunset in 2026

The world cannot potentiate struggles to end the pandemic by dismantling the foremost international body coordinating the response.

Events

INPUD Webinar: Sustainability at the Edge

Online

7 August 2025 - 7 August 2025

This INPUD webinar will bring together community and civil society actors to discuss the impact of global health cuts on people who use drugs.

Publications28 July 2025

Where there is fruit, there is seed: Scaling up community involvement for integrated, responsive, and sustainable harm reduction

The BOOST team explains how scaling up community-led harm reduction is crucial for achieving equity, impact, and real progress in the HIV response.

Publications21 July 2025

Security toolkit: Protecting implementers and improving programme outcomes

CSIH-WCA and FHI 360 produced a toolkit to equip key population programs with the tools to stay safe, stay strong, and deliver better HIV outcomes on the frontlines.

Publications18 July 2025

Sustaining priority services for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections in a changing funding landscape

The WHO outlines how to keep HIV, hepatitis, and STI programs alive amid shrinking budgets.

Publications10 July 2025

2025 Global AIDS Update — AIDS, crisis and the power to transform

UNAIDS warns that a global funding crisis threatens decades of HIV progress, despite the resilience of communities sustaining gains and domestic innovation.

Publications17 June 2025

High-level panel on a resilient and fit-for-purpose UNAIDS joint programme in the context of the sustainability of the HIV response

A new UNAIDS–ILO report lays out urgent reforms in relation to the Joint Programme's management, warning of resurgence risks without stronger country leadership, civil society involvement, domestic investment, and forecasting the pandemic's progress.

Events

CND Intersessional meeting - Thematic discussions on the implementation of all international drug policy commitments following up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration (Autumn 2025)

Vienna, Austria

30 September 2025 - 2 October 2025

A CND event to review global drug policy progress, address urgent health challenges, and prepare for 2028 stock-taking and reforms.

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