1 December 2025 – Kampala, Uganda. On this year’s World AIDS Day, the Uganda Key Populations Consortium (UKPC) stands with our communities and partners across the country to mark both progress made and an alarming reversal now threatening to undermine years of gains in the HIV response. Uganda has reduced new HIV infections nationally over the last two decades and has become a model country across the world. Yet today, that progress is at serious risk, especially for Key Populations (KPs) including Sex Workers, Men who have Sex with Men (MSM), Transgender persons (TGs), People Who Use and Inject Drugs (PWUIDs), fisherfolk communities, Truck Drivers, people in prisons, and their partners. Read our full statement below.