Overview
- Late July reports from UNAIDS and conference coverage in Rio de Janeiro cautioned that cuts to international funding and shrinking prevention services threaten the global fight against HIV.
- A new survey by the NGO Tackle HIV projects roughly 440,000 avoidable HIV deaths worldwide this decade because stigma and misinformation reduce testing and treatment uptake.
- Brazil is named among 21 countries with rising new HIV cases, with the official 2025 bulletin recording 39,216 notified infections and a 22% rise in cases since 2010 in some reports.
- Tackle HIV’s Brazil poll of 2,006 adults found widespread false beliefs and low testing: 36% said heterosexual men face no risk, only 48% had ever tested, and 29% knew that effective treatment with undetectable viral load prevents sexual transmission.
- Brazil’s federal government is studying whether to add long-acting injectable PrEP, a preventive shot that can protect for up to six months, to the public health system as officials weigh options to curb new infections and close prevention gaps.