3:00 - 4:00pm [CET]
This World AIDS Day, the IAS calls on the global community to Unite to reach all. Our theme emphasizes the critical importance of joining together and ensuring that everyone has access to HIV prevention services. This means that we must focus on the science and policies needed to implement person-centred service delivery approaches. We must ensure access to new biomedical advancements, notably long-acting or sustained-release HIV prevention technologies, such as injectables and the vaginal ring.
This webinar will explore how community leaders in the HIV response are aligning their activities to continue guiding and advocating for access to new HIV prevention products and person-centred, stigma-free, integrated and inclusive prevention services for people vulnerable to HIV acquisition. The discussion will explore what their priorities are, why they continue to mobilize and how they stay connected to what their communities need and want.
This webinar will be moderated by IAS President Beatriz Grinsztejn, and the speakers will discuss the following questions:
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As an HIV prevention advocate, what does Unite to reach all mean to you? Who do you think most needs to heed this message to unite? Which communities do you see aligning around HIV prevention advocacy and what is their shared mission?
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What would effective access to long-acting or sustained-release biomedical prevention to HIV acquisition mean for you and your community? Can you give specific examples of how this would improve the quality of life of members of your community?
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What other healthcare services would you like to see integrated into HIV prevention services and why?
Confirmed speakers include:
- Yvette Raphael-Samuels, Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS, South Africa
- Michael Ighodaro, Global Black Pride and Global Black Gay Men Connect, United States
- Beo Oliveira Leite, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
In partnership with:
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.