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This policy brief highlights the interconnectedness of climate change and global health, emphasizing the urgent need for increased attention, investment, and action at the climate-health nexus. The brief calls for a more systematic approach to addressing the climate-health crisis, including the role of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in supporting countries and communities. It provides an overview of how climate change affects HIV and offers policy directions for governments and specific roles for UNAIDS to enhance the effectiveness of climate and health initiatives.

Infographic presenting some 2022-2023 results from the UNAIDS Joint Programme work on HIV in humanitarian settings.

Acute and protracted climatic events, hostile anti-LGBTQI environments, and political and civil unrest threaten to reverse gains in HIV prevention and treatment outcomes and disrupt even the most agile and adaptive HIV services. Synergistically, these multiple crises - or polycrises - create barriers to HIV and other lifesaving services that are in greater demand as HIV risk, trauma, violence, and other economic and social stressors are exacerbated. This session will explore the HIV response in the context of polycrises and highlight actions that actors are taking to promote preparedness and mitigate negative impacts. Speakers will share how HIV programmes have adapted to ensure continuity of HIV prevention, care and treatment in addition to other critical services to vulnerable groups; gaps that persist; and ways forward. The session will conclude with a call to action for donors, policy makers, implementers and communities. The session was organized by FHI 360, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. Department of State Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD) during the International AIDS Conference 2024.

This report explores the extent to which evidence, policy, normative guidance and commitments on HIV and gender-based violence, and their interlinkages, is being translated into action on the ground in fragile settings. These issues are explored through the lens of training of peace support operations deploying African troops across Africa and beyond. Translations are available in French, Portuguese and Arabic

Household-based survey to measure the impact of the national HIV response among adults (aged 15 years and older) living in refugee settlements in Uganda, conducted from October 2021 through December 2021