European AIDS Treatment Group

21/04/2026

Looking to grow your scientific writing? ✍️

The Emerging Voices programme by aidsmap offers new writers a chance to develop journalism skills in a supportive, professional environment.

Join the next generation of voices.

Apply now: https://www.aidsmap.com/news/apr-2026/wanted-new-writers-aidsmap

aidsmap has long been one of the world's leading sources of accurate, independent HIV information. After a period of uncertainty, aidsmap is back – and one of our priorities is reviving Emerging Voices, a programme to train and support a new generation of aidsmap writers. I'm personally thrilled t...

15/04/2026

"When communities lead the conversation about health, prevention becomes more than information — it becomes something people trust."

Denis Kolasinac
Community Educator at Noaks Ark Mosaik Riksförbundet Noaks Ark

Denis is a community health educator from Malmö, and in this blog, he reflects on a study visit to London’s Africa Advocacy Foundation. The experience highlights how trust, peer education, and culturally responsive outreach strengthen HIV prevention and improve engagement with migrant communities and other key populations facing barriers to healthcare.

Read the blog

When discussing HIV prevention, stigma and discrimination remain the most difficult obstacles to address and overcome, as they necessitate ongoing combat. However, it is a battle worth fighting and it is a battle we are going to win

08/04/2026

What happens when communities lead the way in HIV prevention?

This new blog from the SCOPE team, featuring reflections from Amanita, Marco, Vera, Hmayak, Harriet, Chiara, and Apostolos, highlights how lived experiences, collaboration, and community-led action are transforming prevention efforts across Europe and Central Asia, ensuring solutions actually reflect people’s needs.

If SCOPE were a tool… 🔧
What would it be?

From amplification to navigation, flexibility to choice—each perspective reflects the power of community-led HIV prevention:

🧪 A PCR machine, amplifying voices that need to be heard
🍽️ A buffet, offering options that fit real lives
🧭 A compass, guiding communities through complex prevention landscapes
🔪 A Swiss knife, adaptable to diverse and intersecting needs

Read the blog: https://www.eatg.org/blogs/amplifying-community-voices-for-prevention-reflections-from-the-scope-team/

This blog is a collective reflection from the people who made SCOPE happen, a project that amplified community voices in HIV prevention across Europe and Central Asia. At SCOPE, we focus on addressing the intersectional needs of diverse key populations, including men who have s*x with men, transgend...

02/04/2026

EATG endorses NGO Delegation to the UNAIDS PCB’s letter addressed to the President of the United Nations General Assembly regarding the process leading to the 2026 High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS.

Read and endorse the letter: https://www.eatg.org/endorsements-and-sign-ons/unaids-pcb-ngo-delegation-call-for-endorsements-ensuring-meaningful-civil-society-influence-in-the-2026-hiv-political-declaration/

Civil society organisations, networks, and communities across all regions are invited to endorse the attached letter addressed to the President of the United Nations General Assembly regarding the process leading to the 2026 High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS.

31/03/2026

Community-led research in action.

Through the project, led by EATG, trans and s*x worker community members are not just participants, they are researchers.

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the power of trans voices leading change in research, policy, and care.

Working collaboratively, Erofili Kokkali, Daniela Rojas Castro, and Rosemary Delabre developed focused research questions and designed inclusive survey tools to better understand PrEP access and experiences in Greece.

The project also shares its methodology openly, providing survey questions as a practical resource to support and inspire future peer-led research.

🔗 Read more: https://www.eatg.org/blogs/amplifying-voices-community-led-research-on-prep-among-trans-and-non-binary-s*x-workers-in-greece/

This entire experience (including all the preparation details) was very affirming, and I felt no intention of tokenisation, which is unfortunately common. Lived experiences and harm reduction were not only recognised and valued but also actively put into practice in the whole process, and I felt a g...

31/03/2026

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility!

Trans and gender diverse people have a right to be protected from discrimination on the basis of gender identity, including in accessing health services.

29/03/2026

The Long-Term Survivors of HIV Summit has come to an end. 📍

Over these past days in Sitges, people came together from different regions, many of them met for the first time and left connected by something shared: a renewed sense of purpose.

A purpose to leave a legacy.️ To tell their stories. To make sure the next generations do not have to start from zero. To keep challenging stigma and demanding health, dignity and care for all.

The stories we heard over these days hold pain, loss and everything people have had to endure. But they also hold strength, wisdom, love and hope. They remind us that long-term and lifetime survivors are not only part of HIV history; they continue to shape its present and future.

The summit closed with a focus on next steps to carry this work forward through the Legacy Chest and wider advocacy and communication efforts.

Stay tuned for more from this project and from our Legacy Chest.

With Ribbon HIVandRehab and The Reunion Project

28/03/2026

Some parts of our history live in words. Others live in the body.

That felt especially present yesterday in Sitges. Day two brought conversations on lifetime survivorship, intergenerational connection and what comes next, alongside more recordings for the Legacy Chest.

We also had the opportunity to hold a body mapping workshop, led by SuperVIHvents who invited us to reflect on how our past and our future are connected, and how long-term survivors’ stories continue to shape both.

With Ribbon HIVandRehab and The Reunion Project

27/03/2026

Day one in Sitges is behind us. 📍

Yesterday was a day of listening deeply. We reflected on the history of the HIV response, spoke openly about ageing, advocacy and what people are still up against today, and created space for stories to be shared, shaped and recorded for the Legacy Chest.

And if there is one feeling we left with, it is this: the room was full of truth, courage and the kind of honesty that stays with you.

With Ribbon HIVandRehab and The Reunion Project

26/03/2026

The summit has begun in Sitges. 📍

As part of Long-Term Survivors of HIV – Honouring the Past, Shaping the Future, long-term and lifetime survivors of HIV have come together from different regions for a few days of connection, reflection and shared space.

There is something very powerful about being in a room with people whose lives, stories and experiences carry so much history. These moments matter. Not just because they honour the past, but because they help shape what comes next.

With Ribbon The Reunion Project & HIVandRehab

25/03/2026

Drug policy has often been shaped far from the people it affects.

At CND69, Dianova International helped change that — through action and advocacy.
✔️ Organised a dedicated side event
✔️ Co-sponsored multiple global conversations
✔️ Brought a formal civil society declaration into the debate

Because real change happens when voices are not just heard — but acted upon.

📖 Discover how Dianova contributed to global drug policy:
https://www.dianova.org/publications/cnd69-dianova-international-actively-contributes-to-global-drug-policy-discussions/

🔁 Share to keep these voices present beyond the conference.

*Image from left: Cressida de Witte (World Federation Against Drugs, WFAD), Helen Liu (Universisty Saint Joseph Macao), Gisela Hansen (Dianova International), Ruby Rose Lawlor (Youth RISE), Ricardo Fuertes (European AIDS Treatment Group), and B., representing the Noah Youth Development Center (Macau, China)

European Union Drugs Agency - EUDA World Health Organization (WHO) NGO CSW NY (NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York) United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) RIOD Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Proyecto Hombre_ UN Human Rights Council

24/03/2026

The latest edition of the TB CAB Weekly Newsletter ( #9, 24 March) is dedicated to , observed every year on 24 March to build public awareness about the global TB epidemic and efforts to eliminate the disease.

https://www.eatg.org/hiv-news/world-tb-day-24-march-tb-cab-weekly-newsletter-special-edition-2/

The theme of World TB Day 2026 – ‘Yes! We Can End TB: Led by countries, powered by people’ – is a strong message of hope and urgency, that ending TB is achievable, even in today’s challenging global environment – if backed by leadership, investment, solidarity and decisive action.

The newsletter contains a comprehensive compilation of calls to action, useful advocacy resources and publications in relation to World TB Day.

Check out the newsletter here and give your support to help advance the global TB elimination agenda.

The TB CAB Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by the Global TB Community Advisory Board (TB CAB) with the support of Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG).

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