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The urgent need to accelerate progress
The 2025 global HIV prevention targets were not achieved. By the end of 2024, annual new HIV acquisitions had reached their lowest level in more than three decades. But the decline was not steep enough to reach the 2025 target of an 80% reduction in new infections between 2010 and 2025. By the end of 2024, new infections globally had declined by about 40%. Five countries—Lesotho, Malawi, Nepal, Rwanda and Zimbabwe—did achieve a 75% reduction between 2010 and 2024 (1), demonstrating that the targets were achievable. Those advances were the result of strong political will, scale up of prevention and treatment, community leadership and global solidarity. However, globally the decline in new HIV acquisitions was much too slow to meet the 2025 and 2030 targets (fewer than 200 000 new HIV infections per year in 2030). Overall, an estimated 1.3 million (1 million – 1.7 million) people newly acquired HIV in 2024. Even in settings with declining HIV incidence, some groups, in particular key populations, are being left behind. While new HIV infections are declining in Africa, they are stagnating and growing in other regions (Figure 1).