8:00am - 5:00pm [CEST]
The Person-Centred Care Advocacy Academy: HIV in Europe will take place in Paris, France, from 12 to 15 October 2025 ahead of the 20th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2025), to be held in Paris from 15 to 18 October.
This academy is organized by IAS – the International AIDS Society – in collaboration with the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) and local partners and in partnership with Gilead Sciences.
Applications open on Tuesday, 3 June. The IAS and its partners will review applications on a rolling basis. We reserve the right to close applications once we have received a sufficient number. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
The academy will award a limited number of full fellowships to suitable candidates based in European countries to engage in a series of interactive sessions to explore the evidence for, and implementation of, person-centred care for people living with and affected by HIV in Europe. Selected fellows will be fully supported to attend the academy (transport, accommodation and catering), as well as have the opportunity to be fully supported to attend EACS 2025 if they wish to. Please note that for licensed healthcare professionals specifically, this support (transport, accommodation and catering) will be subject to local compliance guidelines. Limitations in the provision of these services might apply.
The objectives are to:
- Provide training and skills building on current person-centred care approaches to service delivery and existing barriers to their implementation.
- Develop tools to disseminate information on person-centred approaches and their importance to the wider community, including policy makers, the media and programme managers.
- Create opportunities to interact with leading researchers and advocates in the field.
- Guide participants to identify service delivery gaps in their communities and develop action plans to overcome these challenges.
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Demonstrate involvement as an advocate, researcher or healthcare provider (including peer educators) in the HIV field for at least the past two years.
- Be affiliated with or employed by HIV organizations, associations, service providers, groups or communities operating in Europe.
- Demonstrate interest in person-centred care approaches and involvement in existing initiatives.
- Have full proficiency in the English language as the academy will be held in English.
Participants will be selected based on their potential to disseminate the knowledge they gain at the academy with other advocates, researchers, physicians, nurses, community healthcare providers and policy makers, among others, in their settings. We especially encourage applications from people who identify as members of a key or affected population who face intersectional stigma and vulnerability to HIV acquisition and/or are engaged with community-based organizations working to support these communities. Specifically, we are referring to communities of people living with HIV, gay men and other men who have sex with men, sex workers, people who use drugs, trans people and gender-diverse people, and people who have migrated to Europe from regions of the world with high HIV burdens or increasing HIV incidence.
Applications are now closed
Applicants will be notified of their status via email within two months of the closure of the application window. Selected participants are expected to participate in the entire in-person academy programme and to prioritize attendance at all virtual sessions to be scheduled both before and after the in-person academy programme.
Check out the event report and the event video from the inaugural Person-Centred Care Advocacy Academy held in Zambia in November 2024 to find out more about what to expect at this event.
Update (4 June 2025): Please note that we have updated this event page text concerning the participation of licensed healthcare professionals. Please contact pcc@iasociety.org if you have any questions.
With thanks to our local organizing partners:
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The Person-Centred Care programme of IAS – the International AIDS Society – is implemented with financial support from, and in collaboration with, Gilead Sciences. The IAS has full control over all the activities and decisions relating to, and forming part of, the Person-Centred Care programme.