Overview
- France’s National Council on HIV and Viral Hepatitis warned that 2025 funding reductions at home and in global aid threaten decades of progress and urged immediate government action.
- Sidaction launched the “Alpha Safe” social-media campaign targeting influencer-fueled misinformation and, with partner groups, asked a Paris court to enforce mandatory school sex-education sessions, with a ruling expected Tuesday.
- Health data show a roughly 41% rise in new HIV diagnoses among 15–24 year-olds since 2014, alongside declining condom use and persistent false beliefs about transmission, despite expanded free testing since 2022.
- The ECDC reports that more than half of Europe’s 2024 HIV diagnoses were late, and French Guiana continues to face severe inequities, with discovery rates nine times the national average and many patients lost to care due to precarity.
- Researchers report cautious progress toward treatment-free control: antibody-based trials (Fresh, RIO) saw some participants maintain undetectable viral loads off antiretrovirals for a median of about 1.5 years, though this remains experimental.