“Decades of hard work and global solidarity have reduced the annual numbers of people acquiring HIV and people dying from AIDS-related causes to their lowest levels in more than 30 years…

Since 2010, the estimated number of new HIV infections fell by 42% globally, with an even steeper decline of 59% in sub-Saharan Africa (which accounted for about half of new infections globally in 2025). The number of new paediatric infections as a result of vertical transmission has dropped by 69% since 2010 to 93 000 [63 000–140 000] in 2025. Prevention of vertical transmission programmes averted nearly 4.8 million acquisitions of HIV in children between 2000 and 2025.

The number of AIDS-related deaths in 2025 was 57% lower than in 2010, decreasing from 1.3 million [1.0 million–1.8 million] in 2010 to 570 000 [430 000–780 000] in 2025.”

From UNAIDS.