UNAIDS Warns of 2025 Funding Pause as 1.3 Million New HIV Infections Reported, Naha Expands Testing

Overview

• UNAIDS released a report on November 25 estimating 1.3 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2024.
• The report notes the HIV response’s largest donor paused funding in 2025, forcing clinic and staffing cuts and pushing services into crisis without naming the country.
• UNAIDS cautions that reduced international aid in 2025 risks reversing progress and driving new infections higher.
• Naha City Health Office is expanding free anonymous HIV testing from November 25 to December 5 at its first-floor lobby and staging a World AIDS Day panel exhibit while promoting U=U.
• Okinawa’s surveillance shows 510 cumulative reports through late October 2025, with about 10–30 new reports annually since 2007 and more than 80% of transmissions linked to sexual contact.