Community activities
Through community activities, the IAS aims to engage the community in the lead up to and throughout the conference.
Below, you will find information about community-led events, calls to action, resources and news around AIDS 2024.
Educational tours
Educational tours provide delegates with unique learning experiences through site visits to local community-based organizations. The goal is to exchange knowledge, best practices, successes, challenges and innovative solutions through dialogue and hands-on activities.
The daily tours will be hosted throughout Munich. Conference delegates can access them at no charge.
View the tour programme and register:
Positive Lounge
The IAS will provide spaces in the conference venue to facilitate and support dialogue, discussion and networking. These spaces include a dedicated lounge for delegates living with and affected by HIV from across the globe.
The Positive Lounge is a place to recharge, refresh and relax in a nurturing environment.
Activism
The theme of AIDS 2024 is Put people first! AIDS 2024 will galvanize the scientific, policy and activist communities.
The IAS endorses freedom of expression as an essential principle in the response to HIV and in promoting full participation in the International AIDS Conference. Activism and advocacy advance commitment, policy and practice aimed at ending the pandemic.
The conference will support dialogue and participation through a team of community activist liaisons who will provide advice and assistance before and during the conference in accordance with the IAS principles and values of conference participation.
Join the call to Put people first!
The AIDS 2024 theme and social campaign is calling on the global HIV response to unite behind a simple principle: Put people first!
We’re inviting all individuals and organizations within the HIV community – those living with it, affected by it or working in the field – to join thousands of stakeholders around the world in telling your story of the personal or professional impact of putting people first.
Share your thoughts, photos or video testimonials using the hashtag, #PutPeopleFirst, and inspire your friends, colleagues, clients, service providers and partner organizations to join this movement by sharing their own stories.
Together, let’s build a more compassionate, inclusive and innovative HIV response that promotes well-being for all, regardless of age, region or population.
Community outreach
As part of the AIDS 2024 Organizing Committee, our civil society partners (GATE, Munich Aidshilfe, ASHA Foundation, COSWA Kenya, Y+ Global, GNP+ and ICW) guide and support the community components of the AIDS 2024 programme.
Through community outreach, we aim to curate meaningful engagement before and throughout the conference. The AIDS 2024 civil society partners represent a diverse and equitable network of key and affected populations. Their outreach projects ensure that a full range of communities and sectors affected by HIV are increasingly engaged in conference planning and delivery, which reflects conference values of inclusion, respect and global partnership building.
HIV Science As Art
The HIV Science as Art exhibition displays 12 original pieces of work that have been co-created by an HIV scientist and their companion artist. The works, which include everything from embroidery to painting to photography to sculpture, will be auctioned, with funds raised going to supporting community-led HIV programmes in eastern Europe and central Asia and on the African continent. The location – Brainlab, Olof-Palme-Straße 9, Munich - is a three-minute walk from the conference venue. It takes place from 22 to 26 July from 10:00 to 19:00 daily. https://aids2024saa.wordpress.com/
