LOCAL HIV ACTION

Where people and communities living with HIV are being heard in decision-making and HIV service delivery, new infections decline and more people living with HIV gain access to treatment. When people have the power to choose, to know, to thrive, to demand and to work together, lives are saved, injustices prevented and dignity restored.

Therefore, local HIV communities should be at the heart of our global drive to fight HIV stigma. We need to seriously listen to the HIV community and make sure that addressing their challenges, ideas and solutions is core in local HIV action to realise global impact. Local HIV action:

  1. Promotes HIV community, engagement and accountability in the context of HIV prevention, services and advocacy.
  2. Ensure we can listen to the specific needs and challenges of the HIV community and work with them on their ideas and solutions to tackle these challenges.
  3. Enables the power to mobilize local capacities, resources and partnerships to strengthen local HIV action and ensure its sustainability.
  4. Empowers local actors to lead on making decisions and taking accountability for HIV action and policy change.

Key initiatives

Stories of Hope aims to contribute to reducing HIV stigma and promoting health seeking behaviour by empowering People Living with HIV (PLWHIV) with a migrant background to share their personal stigma stories and motivate other PLWHIV to connect to HIV professionals and support networks.

Together with the HIV community, we are designing the THRIVE approach that enables people living and ageing with HIV to identify and adopt positive changes to their lifestyle to improve their health-related quality of life. And we are doing this with people living and ageing with HIV instead of for them.

Universal access to PrEP is essential to end the HIV epidemic. PrEP diversity aims to contribute to ensuring access to PrEP for everyone, regardless of gender, race, socioeconomic status, or geographic location. Without promoting PrEP we cannot fulfil our promise to end HIV and AIDS by 2030!

HIV stigmafighter contributes to Positive Spaces where the local HIV community can meet in their fight against HIV. Our aim is to build a growing network of locally-led initiatives that build safe, creative, and empowering environments for people to speak openly about HIV. These spaces are designed to foster dialogue, reduce stigma, and build community resilience, especially amongst those most affected and often underserved.

We want to accelerate creating an inclusive society free from stigma and discrimination, where everyone can contribute to shaping healthy and thriving communities. Through Move on UP we want to build a Movement around this vision: An inclusive society free from stigma and discrimination where people enjoy equitable opportunities to shape healthy and thriving communities.

HIV stigmafighter organises support for vulnerable primary school children in communities with high HIV prevalence. Furthermore, we engage on HIV awareness and improved access to health services for the Burundian Batwa community. Where possible, we speak out for indigenous communities in Burundi and worldwide

Join us!

If you are interested to discuss one of these initatives, would like to share your idea with us, or if you are an organisation that would like to learn more about our local HIV action approach, get in touch with us!