European AIDS Treatment Group

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence | Interpersonal Violence and HIV: A Silent Intersection We Must Confront | EATG Violence shapes how people access treatment, disclose their status, protect their health, and navigate relationships. It can interrupt medication, limit autonomy, and erode a person’s ability to make ...

𝟭𝟲 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧-𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙑𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 | 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙑𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙄𝙑: 𝘼 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙒𝙚 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩

Read the blog by Linda H Scruggs
(Ribbon – A Center of Excellence, Co-Executive Director)

www.eatg.org/blogs/16-day...

#16Days
#ACTToEndViolence
#NoExcuse

Deadline extended: 7 December 2025 (23:59 CET)

EATG relies increasingly on solidarity and community support.

On this #GivingTuesday, you can make a difference. Your donation to EATG will help us sustain and scale up our work.

👉 Learn more about why you should support EATG now: www.eatg.org/support-us/

👉 Donate here: www.eatg.org/donate/

YouTube video by EATG Media Community in SCOPE: A Workshop on HIV Combination Prevention

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.
youtu.be/o0oPOjXIakw

#WAD2025
#SCOPE

World AIDS Day 2025 | Communities are the HIV Response | EATG On World AIDS Day, and every other day of the year—and for every year until this epidemic is over—we call on policymakers, donors, and institutions to stop treating community services as optional. Rec...

𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙄𝙑 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚

On #WorldAIDSDay we call on policymakers, donors & institutions to stop treating community services as optional
Recommit to human rights
Reinvest in gender transformative, community-led care
Restore the funding that austerity has stolen
www.eatg.org/news/world-a...

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”
#CommunityInScope video coming on #WorldAIDSDay2025
#SCOPE

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”

#CommunityInScope video coming on #WorldAIDSDay2025
#WAD2025
#SCOPE

From family planning to menopause, living with HIV as a woman comes with significant yet overlooked challenges. Come hear from Nicoletta Policek, a leading voice for women living with HIV.

🗓️ 10 Dec. 2025
📍 European Parliament InfoHub, Brussels
🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/J1o0Z

🔜𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗔𝗜𝗗𝗦 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁

The EU is at a crossroads. It is a time for 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗜𝗩 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲, promoting 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 and across the 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻.

📅 Wednesday 10 December 2025
🕙 10:00 –12:00 CET
📍 European Parliament InfoHub, Brussels
🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/J1o0Z

Community-led HIV responses save lives.

Magdalena Ankiersztejn-Bartczak has spent 20+ years advancing person-centred care and support for people living with HIV in Poland.

Come hear her insights at our World AIDS Day event.

🗓️ 10.12.25
📍 EP InfoHub
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/J1o0Z

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!”

#CommunityInScope video coming on #WorldAIDSDay2025
#WAD2025
#SCOPE

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”

#CommunityInScope video coming on #WorldAIDSDay2025
#SCOPE

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
#WAD2025
#SCOPE

✨ Applications are open for the #SCOPE Study Trips! ✨

Are you passionate about community advocacy, HIV, sexual health, or grassroots organising?

EATG’s SCOPE project invites motivated activists and community workers to apply for a study trip!

👉 Apply by 3 December

www.eatg.org/calls-and-va...

SCOPE: Study Trip from NGO Cohort (Ukraine) to New Generation NGO (Armenia) | EATG In May 2023, I travelled from Ukraine to Armenia to visit New Generation NGO and the shelter/community center. One of the highlights on the trip was attending the local annual conference dedicated to ...

📍 Yerevan – from NGO Cohort (Ukraine) to New Generation NGO (Armenia)

www.eatg.org/blogs/scope-...

SCOPE: Study Trip from Stronger Together (North Macedonia) to GAT (Portugal) | EATG 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...

📍 Lisbon – from Stronger Together (North Macedonia) to GAT (Portugal)

www.eatg.org/blogs/scope-...

🩺 #EHS2025: Panel Announcement!

"Unfinished Business: Rebuilding Europe's HIV Prevention Strategy".

🗣Featuring speakers from Gilead Sciences, @europarl.europa.eu, European AIDS Clinical Society, @eatgroup.bsky.social, and the Government Of Romania.

Register now: ebsummits.eu/our-summits/...

𝟭𝟲 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧-𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙑𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 | 𝘼 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚, 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥

Read the blog by Nicoletta Policek, Executive Director of EATG

www.eatg.org/blogs/16-day...

#16Days
#ACTToEndViolence
#NoExcuse

CORE: Local Stakeholders Gather in Paris to Discuss Community-Led Strategies for Inclusive Health and Policy for Sex Workers | EATG On 14 October 2025, Community Response for Empowerment (CORE) Project organised a multi-stakeholder meeting titled “From Margins to Mainstream: Community-Led Strategies for Inclusive Health and Policy...

On 14 October, #COREActionEU Project organised a multi-stakeholder meeting titled From Margins to Mainstream: Community-Led Strategies for Inclusive Health and Policy for Sex Workers in France.

Tap/Click below to read a news report from this meeting.
www.eatg.org/news/core-lo...

#EATGatEACS2025

CORE Multi-Stakeholders' Meeting | Resilience in Times of Uncertainty: Advancing Community-Led Health Responses through Collaboration | EATG As part of the CORE (COmmunity REsponse to End Inequalities) Project, European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) and AIDS Action Europe (AAE), together with Africa Advocacy Foundation, Correlation – Europea...

As part of the CORE Project, EATG & AAE, together with Africa Advocacy Foundation, Correlation and ESWA, are organising a Concluding Multi-Stakeholders' Meeting: Resilience in Times of Uncertainty: Advancing Community-Led Health Responses through Collaboration

www.eatg.org/events/core-...

SCOPE: Funding for the Translation of Resource Material | EATG One of the SCOPE project objectives is to provide a platform for learning, networking, and mutual support for representatives from community-based organisations. As a result, two grants of up to 2,500...

Apply to translate a resource material: make key information accessible locally

Two #SCOPE grants are available for community-based organisations to translate HIV prevention materials.

Tap/click below to learn more about it and to apply

Apply by 3 December 2025

www.eatg.org/calls-and-va...

SCOPE: Capacity-Building Scholarship to Attend a Scientific or Policy Conference | EATG The SCOPE project will support participation in a relevant scientific or policy conference of the applicant’s choice. Participants should be community health workers and advocates involved in HIV comb...

Scientific and policy conference scholarships: for the conference enthusiasts

This #SCOPE scholarship supports community members to attend a scientific or policy event of their choice.

Tap/click below to learn more about it and to apply

Apply by 3 December 2025

www.eatg.org/calls-and-va...

SCOPE: Study Trip in the Field of HIV Combination Prevention –A Peer-to-Peer Learning Programme | EATG The SCOPE project is providing two individual study trips for community health workers and advocates involved in HIV combination prevention service delivery in the WHO European region to carry out ind...

Study trips: learn, exchange and connect with peers

#SCOPE supports two individual study trips for community health workers and advocates.

Tap/click below to learn more about it and to apply

Apply by 3 December 2025

www.eatg.org/calls-and-va...

Are you conducting scientific research on topics related to women & #HIV?
Submit your findings by 16 Jan 2026 to the 16th International Workshop on Women & HIV, taking place 10–11 April 2026 in Prague
amededu.co/3VznspX

EATG is happy to endorse the workshop organised by @academicmededu.bsky.social

SCOPE: EATG Launches Opportunities to Amplify Community Voices in HIV Prevention | EATG SCOPE is looking for you! We are launching three new opportunities designed to strengthen community leadership and support peer-driven HIV prevention across the WHO European region.

📢 SCOPE: EATG Launches Opportunities to Amplify Community Voices in HIV Prevention

✨ Study Trips
✨ Conference Scholarships
✨ Translation Grants

🗓️ Apply by 3 December

www.eatg.org/news/scope-e...

Less than two weeks remaining.
Apply now
www.eatg.org/calls-and-va...
#NowHiring

👏Introducing our host: the Vice-President of the European Palriament, MEP Victor Negrescu

A longstanding voice for health and children's rights, MEP Negrescu's keynote speech will reflect the need for an inclusive HIV response.

🗓️ 10.12.25
📍 EP InfoHub
🔗 shorturl.at/J1o0Z

@eatgroup.bsky.social

European Testing Week starts today!

From 17–24 November 2025, join www.testingweek.eu in increasing testing for HIV, Hepatitis & STIs.
Together, we can make a difference: Test. Treat. Prevent.

✅ Don’t forget to use #EuroTestWeek and #TestTreatPrevent to spread the word!

SCOPE: Community Insights on the HIV and STIs Biomedical Prevention Pipeline PrEP Implementation and Combination Prevention Advocacy —Reports | EATG In May and July 2025, EATG organised two community learning and advocacy meetings focused on advancing awareness and equitable access to combination prevention tools for HIV and other STIs. On this pa...

📢 New reports now available!

In May and July 2025, EATG hosted two community learning and advocacy meetings in the frame of the #SCOPE project to boost awareness and equitable access to HIV and STI combination prevention tools.

You can now read both meeting reports.

www.eatg.org/publications...

You can stream the recording of the webinar here:
youtu.be/8cLYFwgyBcE

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