Global collaboration, local impact
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This category highlights three themes that concentrate on the multifaceted challenges of HIV/Aids: “Strengthened global response”, focusing on global partnerships, sustainable funding and integration with broader healthcare systems; “Community empowerment and sustainability”, emphasising community-led mobilisation, combating stigma and ensuring resilient services; and “Integration and intersecting challenges”, exploring the interconnected nature of health issues and the pursuit of broader development goals.
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Strengthened global response
This theme incorporates global partnerships, funding challenges, community mobilisation and maintaining progress among other health issues (like Covid-19 and other pandemics). It covers items like the Global Partnership to Eliminate Stigma, global solidarity, global funding, UNAIDS targets, the impact of Covid-19 and integration with broader healthcare systems.
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Community empowerment and sustainability
The focus in this area falls on community-led mobilisation and care approaches, addressing stigma and discrimination, sustainable global and local financing, combatting corruption in the HIV/Aids response, as well as the resilience of services in the context of global conflicts.
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Integration and intersecting challenges
This area highlights addressing HIV alongside other health issues (TB, pandemics, comorbidities), achieving broader development goals (SDGs) and the challenges of the HIV/climate change nexus.