AIDS 2016: key information about the event in Durban

When: 17-22 July 2016

Where: Durban, South Africa

For whom: all stakeholders engaged in fighting the HIV and AIDS apidemic, including policy amkers and people living with HIV, who managed to register before July, 2

Programme: http://programme.aids2016.org 

Website: http://www.aids2016.org

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/InternationalAIDSConference 

FHI 360 is the official live coverage social media provider for AIDS 2016. Coverage is available on their site: http://crowd360.org/aids2016/

Key AIDS 2016 pre-conferences

AIDS 2016 main objectives:

  1. Bringing together the world’s experts to advance knowledge about HIV, present new research findings, and promote and enhance scientific and community collaborations around the world;
  2. Promoting HIV responses that are supported by and tailored to the needs of at risk populations or people living with HIV, including women and girls, men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers, young people, and people who use drugs;
  3. Promoting activism and community mobilization that holds leaders, industry, and governments accountable and increases their commitment to an evidence-based, human-rights-affirming HIV and AIDS response;
  4. Advancing a clear agenda for HIV in a post-2015 framework, including the cross-cutting issues of criminalization, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, rights, and stigma and discrimination that keep people living with HIV at the center of the HIV response; and
  5. Building innovative partnerships with businesses, community, government, and science to strengthen HIV prevention and treatment efforts.

 

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