Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Argentina’s health system has a long history of providing health services free of charge, including HIV testing, monitoring, and treatment, which is available to people living with HIV (PLHIV) through both personal and public health coverage. Nevertheless, inefficiency in resource management and fragmentation of the health system conspire against a more successful outcome. About 89,000 patients were on antiretroviral therapy (ART) by the end of 2018, 70% of whom were covered by the National AIDS Program. The remaining individuals received their ART from the social security system (25%) or private entities (5%). The HIV incidence rate dropped 42% after ART was introduced in the country, but unfortunately has remained stable since that decline. A steady number of approximately 5800 new cases are diagnosed and up to 1500 AIDS-related deaths occur every year. A major revision to the national AIDS Law in 2022 modernized Argentina’s HIV policy framework by integrating biomedical, social, and rights-based approaches, making it one of the more comprehensive HIV laws in Latin America and aligning national policy with contemporary public health and human rights standards.</jats:p>