Preventing HIV Infections at the Time of A New Pandemic

Throughout 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept around the world, threatening decades of hard-won development and public health gains. Global and country level efforts to control the AIDS epidemic are facing unprecedented threats. Hard-won gains in HIV prevention, with the number of people newly infected with HIV declining by 23% since 2010, are in danger of being reversed by the COVID-19 pandemic—and populations already left behind are at risk of falling further behind.