This Pre-Conference will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 25 July 2026.
#PLHIVLeadersNow #UequalsU #LIVING2026
This plenary brings together global HIV leaders to reaffirm PLHIV leadership as central to the political, scientific, and moral direction of the HIV response. The session explores how PLHIV‑led systems can be sustainably resourced, how integration can uphold rights and continuity of care, and how global institutions can embed PLHIV leadership in governance, evidence generation, and accountability. It sets the tone for a decade where PLHIV leadership drives U=U, shapes policy, and influences global HIV strategies.
This session examines the future of HIV science and the systems that must support it. The session highlights the need for financing models, integration frameworks, and accountability mechanisms that are anchored in PLHIV leadership. It explores how emerging technologies, long‑acting treatments, diagnostics, and cure research must be grounded in lived experience, human rights, and equity. This session also explores how global actors must dismantle stigma, criminalization, and structural barriers to ensure scientific progress benefits all PLHIV.
In this interactive breakout session, participants work across four thematic areas to identify the political, programmatic, and structural responses needed for the next decade. Each group develops concrete recommendations that assert PLHIV leadership as indispensable to sustaining U=U, protecting rights, and shaping the future of HIV programs, science, and systems.
These partner-led sessions provide space for focused, technical discussions on each partner’s respective priority areas.
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
#Living2024 will open with a panel to set the scene for the pre-conference. #Living2024 Opening Panel
July 20, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 200 Pax
U=U is a game-changer, transforming the social, sexual, and reproductive lives of people living with HIV and accelerating toward the
July 20, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Within this theme we will discuss the new and ‘in pipeline’ HIV prevention and treatment therapeutics and diagnostics as well
July 20, 2024
Expired!
Room 12A – 60 Pax
Workshop by ICW Global Description: The workshop will focus on the persistent issues of mistreatment, abuse, and coercion faced by women
July 20, 2024
Expired!
Room 12B – 60 Pax
This session will serve as a Unitaid 101, about Unitaid and the workings of the Communities Delegation on the Board
July 20, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
There are still gaps in reaching sex workers and mothers who use drugs with preventive interventions to stop vertical transmission
July 20, 2024
Expired!
Room 12A – 60 Pax
Workshop by European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) This workshop aims to address the inclusion of people living with HIV in
July 20, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Participants will workshop coordinated messages for the global PLHIV movement to consider calling for all people living with HIV in
July 20, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Data prove that investing in the health and well-being of people living with HIV not only benefits those of us
July 20, 2024
Expired!
20 July 2024
Room 12B
Session by: GNP+ in collaboration with CCABA
July 20, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
July 21 is #ZeroStigma day. We’ll kick off the day with a panel discussion that will help us reflect on
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Stigma, discrimination and criminalisation remain a persistent and pernicious challenge for people living with HIV in all our diversities, limiting
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 12B – 60 Pax
Self LOVE – Self STIGMA Workshop by Beyond Stigma Experience a powerful workshop focused on the journey from self-stigma to
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Join us for an engaging, interactive session where we will discuss the realities of HIV criminalisation and explore successful strategies
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 12A – 60 Pax
The People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0 is a standardised research tool designed to be used by and for
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Since the introduction of the first HIV programs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the 1980s,
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 12B – 60 Pax
We will focus on identifying and exploring the different priorities and concerns of different generations and experiences in the HIV
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
The AIDS response is at a pivotal time. Progress on the global goal to end AIDS by 2030 is off
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 12A – 60 Pax
Explore the critical role of women-led responses in sustaining and advancing the global HIV response. Despite their proven impact, these
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
This closing session will bring together the #Living2024 partners and supporters to reflect on the messages that have emerged from
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 12A – 60 Pax
Session by: GNP+ and UNDP Crowdfunding learning workshop with follow up after conference. Expert from UNDP will present theoretical knowledge
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 12B
STOPAIDS, WACI Health, Aidsfonds, and GNP+ are delighted to invite you to a pivotal preliminary session where we will introduce
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 12A
Building on the Unitaid 101 session hosted by the Unitaid Communities Board Delegation, this session aims to provide additional insights
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 12B – 60 Pax
Communities of key-populations living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa region face specific challenges to ensure lifesaving
July 21, 2024
Expired!
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
#Living2024 will open with a panel to set the scene for the pre-conference. #Living2024 Opening Panel
20 July 2024
08.00 – 09.00 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 200 Pax
U=U is a game-changer, transforming the social, sexual, and reproductive lives of people living with HIV and accelerating toward the
20 July 2024
09.30 – 11.00 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Within this theme we will discuss the new and ‘in pipeline’ HIV prevention and treatment therapeutics and diagnostics as well
20 July 2024
11.30 – 12.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12A – 60 Pax
Workshop by ICW Global Description: The workshop will focus on the persistent issues of mistreatment, abuse, and coercion faced by women
20 July 2024
11.30 – 12.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12B – 60 Pax
This session will serve as a Unitaid 101, about Unitaid and the workings of the Communities Delegation on the Board
20 July 2024
11.30 – 12.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
There are still gaps in reaching sex workers and mothers who use drugs with preventive interventions to stop vertical transmission
20 July 2024
13.30 – 14.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12A – 60 Pax
Workshop by European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) This workshop aims to address the inclusion of people living with HIV in
20 July 2024
13.30 – 14.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Data prove that investing in the health and well-being of people living with HIV not only benefits those of us
20 July 2024
15.00 – 16.30 (CAT)
Attend
20 July 2024
Room 12B
Session by: GNP+ in collaboration with CCABA
20 July 2024
15.00 – 16.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Participants will workshop coordinated messages for the global PLHIV movement to consider calling for all people living with HIV in
20 July 2024
17.00 – 18.00 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
July 21 is #ZeroStigma day. We’ll kick off the day with a panel discussion that will help us reflect on
21 July 2024
08.00 – 09.00 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Stigma, discrimination and criminalisation remain a persistent and pernicious challenge for people living with HIV in all our diversities, limiting
21 July 2024
09.30 – 11.00 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12A – 60 Pax
Session by: GNP+ and UNDP Crowdfunding learning workshop with follow up after conference. Expert from UNDP will present theoretical knowledge
21 July 2024
09.30 – 11.00 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12B – 60 Pax
Self LOVE – Self STIGMA Workshop by Beyond Stigma Experience a powerful workshop focused on the journey from self-stigma to
21 July 2024
09.30 – 11.00 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Join us for an engaging, interactive session where we will discuss the realities of HIV criminalisation and explore successful strategies
21 July 2024
11.30 – 12.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12A – 60 Pax
The People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0 is a standardised research tool designed to be used by and for
21 July 2024
11.30 – 12.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12B
STOPAIDS, WACI Health, Aidsfonds, and GNP+ are delighted to invite you to a pivotal preliminary session where we will introduce
21 July 2024
11.30 – 12.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
Since the introduction of the first HIV programs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the 1980s,
21 July 2024
13.30 – 14.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12A
Building on the Unitaid 101 session hosted by the Unitaid Communities Board Delegation, this session aims to provide additional insights
21 July 2024
13.30 – 14.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12B – 60 Pax
We will focus on identifying and exploring the different priorities and concerns of different generations and experiences in the HIV
21 July 2024
13.30 – 14.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
The AIDS response is at a pivotal time. Progress on the global goal to end AIDS by 2030 is off
21 July 2024
15.00 – 16.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12A – 60 Pax
Explore the critical role of women-led responses in sustaining and advancing the global HIV response. Despite their proven impact, these
21 July 2024
15.00 – 16.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 12B – 60 Pax
Communities of key-populations living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa region face specific challenges to ensure lifesaving
21 July 2024
15.00 – 16.30 (CAT)
Attend
Room 13b/ Channel 7 – 200 Pax
This closing session will bring together the #Living2024 partners and supporters to reflect on the messages that have emerged from
21 July 2024
17.00 – 18.00 (CAT)
Attend
