European AIDS Treatment Group

23/01/2026

The 11th HIV Cure Community-led Workshop was held on 15 October 2025, in Paris, France at the conference. The workshop discussed approaches for HIV cure research, provided updates on upcoming trials on therapeutic vaccination, and stressed the importance of the contributions of the community.

⤵️ This is a summary report from the workshop.
https://www.eatg.org/publications/steps-11-a-community-initiative-to-design-the-pathway-to-a-durable-art-free-control-of-hiv-infection-summary-report/

Highlights

· Ongoing reconsent and long-term follow-up are becoming increasingly important components of ATI trials.

· The EU2Cure platform aims to connect post-treatment controllers who are interested in HIV cure research with investigators.

· A major complexity of HIV cure trials lies in the emotional and ethical challenge of communicating a positive HIV diagnosis while simultaneously proposing trial enrolment.

· Even when information is presented in a highly explicit and transparent manner, participants may still experience a degree of hope (of HIV control, without treatment), highlighting the need for tailored tools alongside oral communication.

· Frequencies of HTI-specific T-cells associated with improved viral control could inform the design of future HIV cure trials.

· In a context of diminishing political attention, tightening funding and increasing pressure on health systems, community participation is not merely desirable - it is essential.

European AIDS Clinical Society

The 11th STEPS HIV Cure community-led workshop took place on 15 October 2024 in Paris ahead of the EACS 2025 conference. This is a summary report from the workshop.

22/01/2026

EATG is looking for a consultant to coordinate and author our annual report for 2025.

EATG produces an activity report on an annual basis, which is typically an overview of key activities, performance metrics, with a financial and membership summary. For the 2025 Annual Report (AR2024), EATG is seeking an individual to develop and implement a storytelling approach to the report, aiming to create an emotional connection with readers.

⤵️ Apply by 31 January 2026

EATG is looking for a consultant to coordinate and author our annual report for 2025.EATG produces an activity report on an annual basis, which is typically an overview of key activities, performance metrics, with a financial and membership summary. For the 2025 Annual Report (AR2024), EATG is seeki...

20/01/2026

📢 | ECDC guidance on

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has released health guidance on the use of doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis (DoxyPEP) for the prevention of bacterial STIs in the EU/EEA.

👉 Want a community-focused explainer on ?

Check out EATG’s resource: https://www.eatg.org/publications/doxypep/

📄 Full ECDC guidance: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/public-health-considerations-use-doxycycline-post-exposure-prophylaxis-bacterial

For more than a decade, bacterial s*xually transmitted infections (STIs) have been increasing across the EU/EEA. Men who have s*x with men, particularly those living with HIV or using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, are overrepresented in case notifications for bacterial STIs such as gonorrhoea, syphi...

19/01/2026

"In Armenia, HIV prevention can feel out of reach for many people. While international guidelines exist, they often don’t reflect the realities here—the local laws, healthcare services, or the everyday challenges faced by marginalised communities. Transgender people, s*x workers, and other key populations often navigate stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings, which can make seeking testing, treatment, or preventive measures like PrEP intimidating, if not impossible. This is why the Right SIDE NGO decided to create something different: a community-focused resource called 'HIV Prevention for All: A Community Guide to Health, Rights, and Inclusion'.”

Lilit Martirosyan reports.

https://www.eatg.org/blogs/scope-hiv-prevention-for-everyone-making-information-accessible-in-armenia-armenia/

In Armenia, HIV prevention can feel out of reach for many people. While international guidelines exist, they often don’t reflect the realities here—the local laws, healthcare services, or the everyday challenges faced by marginalised communities. Transgender people, s*x workers, and other key po...

16/01/2026

"In October 2025, Cyprus entered a new phase in HIV prevention. After years of community advocacy, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) became officially available and free of charge, without restrictions linked to citizenship status or registration in the National Health System. It marked a major step toward the UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals and the aim of ending HIV transmission by 2030.

Support from EATG’s SCOPE project helped the Movement to:

- Produce and distribute a multilingual PrEP Guide in print and online;
- Launch the Cyprus PrEP Point, a community space for information, support, guidance and empowerment;
- Organise the PrEP Month, connecting national and international voices to raise awareness."

Yiannis Charilaou from AIDS Solidarity Movement - Cyprus reports.

https://www.eatg.org/blogs/scope-the-story-of-prep-in-cyprus-from-advocacy-to-access-cyprus/

In October 2025, Cyprus entered a new phase in HIV prevention. After years of community advocacy, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) became officially available and free of charge, without restrictions linked to citizenship status or registration in the National Health System. It marked a major step to...

08/01/2026

The CORE (COmmunity REsponse to End Inequalities) project successfully strengthened community-led integrated testing and linkage-to-care for vulnerable hard-to-reach populations in 10 countries across Europe. Over its 36-month implementation period (January 2023 - December 2025), the project achieved remarkable outcomes including 678,333 integrated screening sessions, distribution of 2.7 million condoms, and a major public health milestone: advocating for PrEP access in Cyprus.

Despite facing typical challenges of large EU-funded consortia including bureaucratic complexities, and the inherent difficulties of applying institutional funding frameworks to small community-based organisations CORE demonstrated the vital importance and feasibility of community-driven approaches to HIV, viral hepatitis, STIs, and tuberculosis services.

This comprehensive Lessons Learnt Report documents critical insights across three key areas:

- Management: How the project navigated partner coordination, financial capacity building, evaluation frameworks, and the challenges of working within reporting systems. Key achievements include robust partner retention, strengthened collaborative networks, and improved financial management capacity across implementing organisations.

- Communication and Knowledge Exchange: The successes and challenges of capacity building, webinars, workshops, and cross-community learning. The report highlights the crucial need for better engagement with frontline community health workers and peer workers, rather than solely management staff.

- Interventions and Advocacy: How CORE expanded testing services, integrated multiple disease screenings, reached new populations, and achieved policy victories. The report emphasizes the essential role of peer workers, the effectiveness of integrated testing in reducing stigma, and the urgent need for sustainability planning.

The core lesson learned is unequivocal: community-based services, despite demonstrating their value and feasibility, require sustained funding commitments from governments and health systems to survive beyond project cycles. Future initiatives must embed sustainability planning from the design phase, incorporate buffer budgets for operational flexibility, and integrate more effective advocacy and fundraising strategies throughout the entire implementation lifecycle.

https://www.eatg.org/publications/core-lessons-learnt-report/



AIDS Action Europe

The CORE (COmmunity REsponse to End Inequalities) project successfully strengthened community-led integrated testing and linkage-to-care for vulnerable hard-to-reach populations in 10 countries across Europe. Over its 36-month implementation period (January 2023 - December 2025), the project achieve...

07/01/2026

EATG is glad to endorse the 16th International Workshop on Women & HIV, organised by Academic Medical Education

⏰ One week to go — don’t miss the opportunity to submit your abstract!

The abstract submission deadline for the 16th International Workshop on Women & HIV is fast approaching. This is your final chance to share your research and contribute to the global discussion on women and HIV.

🗓Submission Deadline: Friday, 16 January 2026, 23:59 CET

We welcome abstracts across a broad range of topics, including HIV epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and models of care, ART choices and toxicity, reproductive health, challenges faced by women living with HIV, and emerging infections.

🔗 Submit your abstract: https://amededu.co/3Nw1aVf

🔗 Explore the full list of topics here: https://academicmedicaleducation.com/programs/16th-international-workshop-on-women-and-hiv-2026/abstract-submission

19/12/2025

🎄✨ 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣'𝙨 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧! 🎉🥂

We wish you a happy holiday break and best festive wishes for 2026 ❄️

As the festive season approaches and the year comes to a close, EATG takes this moment to pause, celebrate and take stock of the progress made, the lessons learned, and the areas that call for renewed attention. This time of reflection follows a year shaped by complexity and transition in the HIV response. Honesty, care, and collective responsibility are more critical than ever in advancing our shared goals. 🌟🤝

Throughout the year, the strength and commitment of EATG’s members, staff and partners have remained central. Together, challenges have been navigated, collaborations reinforced, and lived experience kept firmly at the heart of the work. These efforts, whether visible or behind the scenes, continue to define EATG’s impact, resilience, and credibility. 💪🌍

Looking ahead, the new year brings both momentum and opportunity, as EATG embarks on its new 2026–2028 strategy. This next chapter offers a renewed framework for action, fresh energy, and shared ambition, strengthening EATG’s capacity to respond to evolving needs while staying true to its values. 📘✨

With wishes for health, rest, and moments of connection during the festive period, EATG looks to the year ahead with excitement and determination. We are ready to continue demonstrating the strength of a community that leads with purpose, care and compassion and works to make lasting change possible. 🙌💖🔥

The EATG team

Our office will be closed for the season from 20 December to 4 January (incl.) 📅

Take a look back at EATG's 2025 highlights 👀✨
https://mailchi.mp/ec9f03811800/seasons-greetings-2026

18/12/2025

𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙐𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙮: 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙒𝙚 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙊𝙍𝙀 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩’𝙨 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜

As funding for health shrinks, civic space contracts, and HIV slips down political agendas, one question looms large: how do community‑led responses survive and adapt?

This was the central theme of the CORE Project’s final multi‑stakeholder workshop, Resilience in Times of Uncertainty: Advancing Community‑Led Health Responses through Collaboration, held on 5 December 2025. The event brought together 50 participants from across Europe – community leaders, civil society organisations, UN agencies, EU institutions, academia, and regional networks – to reflect on lessons learned and chart a way forward beyond the project’s lifetime.

Tap/Click below to read a news report from this meeting.

https://www.eatg.org/news/core-resilience-in-times-of-uncertainty-what-we-learned-from-the-core-projects-final-multi-stakeholder-meeting/


AIDS Action Europe

As funding for health shrinks, civic space contracts, and HIV slips down political agendas, one question looms large: how do community led responses survive and adapt? This was the central theme of the CORE Project’s final multi stakeholder workshop, Resilience in Times of Uncertainty: Advancing C...

18/12/2025

"As debates around the EU Drugs Strategy continue, EATG will continue to underline the importance of protecting civil society space, restoring harm reduction as a central pillar of drug policy, and ensuring that prevention and treatment genuinely reach the most marginalised, including undocumented migrants. A balanced, public health- and rights-based approach is not an abstract principle; it requires concrete actions, political commitment, and sustained investment."

Read the blog by Ricardo Fuertes, EATG representative at the EU Civil Society Forum on Drugs

https://www.eatg.org/blogs/the-new-eu-drugs-strategy-an-unbalanced-approach-and-the-downgrading-of-harm-reduction/

16/12/2025

It’s time to revisit our campaign

https://www.eatg.org/it-starts-and-ends-with-us/

16/12/2025

It’s time to revisit our campaign

https://www.eatg.org/it-starts-and-ends-with-us/