The AIDS 2026 Global Village opens on Monday, 27 July. See the full schedule below:

FREE ENTRY

27 – 30 July

Riocentro Convention & Event Center

A blend of speaker sessions and cultural activities, the Global Village is a hub for live performances, building networks, and browsing marketplace booths and art exhibits. We curate the programme from public applications from individuals, groups and organizations working across the response to HIV.

The AIDS 2026 Global Village features over 200 activities – and here is a taste of what to expect.

Sessions:

• Building sustainability for harm reduction under threat

• Call for action on chemsex, HIV and human rights in Latin America

• Advanced HIV disease: An ongoing global challenge

• Pleasure principle: Sex work, content creation, and fostering wellness and sexual satisfaction

• Innovative PrEP delivery models in EECA and the Balkans

• United in action: Caribbean communities leading HIV response

Art exhibits and marketplace booths:

• Through Positive Eyes: Rio Revisited – a participatory art exhibition and live storytelling experience led by Brazilian “artivists” living with HIV

• Doses of Life: Each dose is a seed. Each seed, a future – 10 photographs created through a participatory process with people recently diagnosed with HIV

• Persons with Disabilities AIDS Group – a marketplace booth from Uganda showing that “disability does not mean inability”

• Community bazaar by people living with HIV in Pakistan – a marketplace booth for sex workers and people living with HIV

Networking zones and the Youth Pavilion:

• The Youth Pavilion – a space for young people to lead discussions, present their work and engage with peers and mentors

• Mental Health Networking Zone – translating evidence on the links between mental health, HIV and TB into practical and community-driven action

• Indigenous Peoples Networking Zone – a space to mobilize, share ancestral knowledge and influence the global HIV response

• Strengthening HIV services for key populations and people living with disabilities by addressing stigma and inequity

• MPact’s Queer Zone – a safe, affirming and celebratory space for the queer community to gather

NGO booths and workshops:

• Bondage as a practice of pleasure management and harm reduction: community-based perspectives for sexual health – a workshop that centres consent, communication, care and bodily autonomy as key components of sexual health

• Black & magic: Stories of resilience and HIV awareness – a showcase of works reflecting the intersection of race, health and identity

• Brazilian, Latin American and Caribbean LGBTI+ network responses to HIV – an NGO booth presenting three networks and their HIV-related activities in the region

• The IAS booth – where you can learn all about the IAS and meet our staff

The Global Village gratefully acknowledges the generous support provided by its principal sponsor, Positive Action.