News & storiesPanel Discussions: Advancing HIV Cure in Africa
News & storiesPanel Discussions: Advancing HIV Cure in Africa
Panel Discussions: Advancing HIV Cure in Africa
Last updated on: 26 February 2024
Recently Aidsfonds hosted two highly exciting 60-minutes panel-discussions as part of the NL4Cure Spring Symposium 2023. During the 2 webinars we discussed how researchers, communities and other stakeholders from high income countries can work equitably with low- and middle-income countries in the interests of finding an HIV cure for all.
Remko van Leeuwen, strategic advisor for HIV cure studies at Aidsfonds was joined by co-host Jessica Salzwedel from AVAC and Cynthia Lungu from the Erasmus MC HIV Eradication Group. Together they explored with two panels of scientific experts and members from affected communities which integrated interventions are needed to achieve durable HIV control. Additionally, during the webinar, they explored the contextual barriers, facilitators, and perspectives of stakeholders for implementation, so that Africa is not left behind as HIV cure research becomes mainstream in richer parts of the world.
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Empowering Diversity and Youth Participation in Indonesia
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Empowering Diversity and Youth Participation in Indonesia
The impact of barriers experienced by young people with diverse gender and sexuality backgrounds in Indonesia emerges in the context of issues of human rights fulfillment and meaningful engagement in health and legal services. Discriminatory regulations and inhospitable services for young people of diverse genders and sexualities place them in a more vulnerable position to higher HIV infection rates, and criminalisation.
For the first time Sidaction and Aidsfonds are pleased to jointly launch a call for scientific proposals on the theme of HIV CURE with an overall budget of 2 million euros.
This initiative, the fruit of an unprecedented collaboration between the two organisations, aims to mobilise researchers from France, the Netherlands and African countries around this crucial issue for global health. The goal of this ambitious initiative is to foster collaboration between researchers, institutions, and communities, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and collaborative research on the cure for HIV.
