At EATG’s #CommunityinScope workshop in Berlin, we reaffirmed that community-led services are the backbone of the HIV response and that amplifying community voices is more urgent than ever.

Today, on #WorldAIDSDay, we are sharing a video from this meeting.
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Djamila Schäffler, Berlin Ballroom Pier,Germany
“A lot of people were really intimated by the lack of information. Having community role models helps them develop better & healthier practices & attitudes towards HIV combination prevention”
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Hmayak Avetisyan, National Trans Coalition Human Rights NGO (NTC), Armenia
“If you give the tools for policy changes, then real changes happen because when we are together, we are unstoppable”

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Vera Rodriguez, ESWA, The Netherlands
“Decriminalisation of sex work could decrease HIV levels globally and could be one of the most effective measures to reduce it because sex work is work!”

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Marco Stizioli, Brescia Checkpoint, Italy
“The problem is not HIV but discrimination because HIV is just a virus. The problems are that the politicians, the government, the institution don’t give us the tools to protect ourselves”

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Amanita Calderón-Cifuentes, TGEU–Trans Europe and Central Asia, Germany
“We are the most real people you will ever meet because we have paid with blood, sweat and tears and sperm. The price for the privilege of owning ourselves”

#CommunityInScope video coming on #WorldAIDSDay2025
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