World AIDS Day 2025
Today, on December 1—World AIDS Day and the start of Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week in Canada—we reflect on the progress made in the national and global response to HIV, and the important work that still lies ahead. This year’s theme, “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response,” responds to political cuts to HIV action globally, and calls on us to strengthen equity-focused, community-driven, and resilient approaches as we continue working toward an HIV-free future.
Within this article, you will find resources and tools to support your own learning, advocacy, and efforts to help reduce the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS.
Resources and Tools
This guide provides information about menopause for women living with HIV who are at any stage of the menopause transition. This resource was created by a team of women living with HIV who have experienced menopause and offers support from their lived experiences.
This session of BC Women’s Research Rounds was presented by Dr. Melanie Murray and Dr. Hélène Côté who discussed sexual and reproductive research studies in relation to socio-cultural and community-based research strengths.
Help increase awareness about HIV in your community! The Canada’s source for HIV and hepatitis C information (CATIE) Ordering Centre has posters, brochures and other print materials, and they deliver to organizations across Canada free of charge.
You can find materials on HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis.
UNAIDS released its 2025 World AIDS Day report: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response. This report by UNAIDS shows evidence that resilience, investment and innovation combined with global solidarity still offer a path to end AIDS.
The Reproductive Infectious Diseases (RID) Program is a network of health professionals, researchers and knowledge users dedicated to advancing reproductive infectious diseases care and research internationally.
They have has received CIHR funding to carry out the NOVA-HIV clinical trial. The goal of this study is to explore reduced dosing of the nonavalent HPV vaccine in women living with HIV.
The Contraception and Abortion Research Team-Groupe de recherche sur l’avortement et la contraception (CART-GRAC) is a national, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral collaboration performing research to support health services and policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality family planning knowledge, methods and services for people and families throughout Canada.
Contact Us
If you have comments or questions, please contact us at whri.communications@cw.bc.ca. Thank you for joining us in honouring World AIDS Day and for your commitment to continued learning and amplification.