The theme of this year s World AIDS Day is Global solidarity resilient services At the 2016 UN High level Meeting on ending AIDS member states committed to a 75 reduction of TB deaths among people living with HIV by 2020 compared with 2010 Estimates for 2019 suggest that there has been some notable progress with a 63 reduction however the target for 2020 is unlikely to be reached particularly in the context of the current COVID 19 pandemic