GNP+ is a member of the 14-partner steering committee, and leads on global advocacy to ensure that coalition members speak with one voice and amplify opportunities for HIV decriminalization advocacy.
The objective of HJWW is to seek to abolish criminal and similar laws, policies and practices that regulate, control, and punish people living with HIV based on their HIV-positive status; Influencing key global advocacy platforms to advance and promote the human rights, dignity and wellbeing of all people living with HIV.
The initiative creates a pool of parents and caregiver advocates (Mama and Papa Bears) who are capacitated to lead advocacy interventions in their respective countries and be voices for children in global influencing platforms.
The objective of EPIC is to bring together communities, civil society organizations, and partners working on paediatric and children’s access to treatment and care:
Build stronger partnerships with civil society and partners to harness advocacy messages and strengthen collaborations.
Identify, recruit, and capacity build a team of national level advocates for children who are parents or caregivers of children.
Support partners, through utilizing the team of advocates for children to conduct data collection and evidence gathering in the communities to inform advocacy.
We have joined forces because we have diverse and intersecting identities. Members of our communities may be subjected to various types of stigma, discrimination and criminalisation, and those identifying with more than one key population may face additional barriers to equality, justice, and services.
The Not A Criminal campaign seeks to mobilise multifaceted community action to hold governments, legislators and policymakers accountable to their global commitments to ensure access to health and respect human rights.
The Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP) Consortium brings together international social scientists, human rights lawyers, health advocates, and networks of people living with HIV to conduct research and advocate for rights-based digital governance globally. The Future of Human Rights in the Digital Age project uses a transnational participatory action research approach, centering the voices and leadership of diverse young adults to define the future of human rights in the digital age. Funded by BOTNAR, GNP+ is honored to be one of the consortium members, alongside University of Warwick, Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), Privacy International, Restless Development, STOPAIDS, and Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).
Community members participate as researchers, advocates, and decision-makers at all levels. Study participants gain digital literacy and youth leadership training, and participate in global and national advocacy to promote human rights in the governance of artificial intelligence and technology. DHRP will also launch an online hub with courses and training materials for public use.
Using a transnational participatory approach, the Digital Health and Rights Project consortium is studying the future of human rights in the digital age, and the role diverse grass-roots communities in low- and middle-income countries play in shaping that future.
In Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Vietnam, the study is investigating how young adults experience digital governance, what they see as meaningful participation in strategy and policy discussions and the kind of digital literacy and empowerment training they want to equip them in policy advocacy. The study includes participation by young adults and civil society at all levels of the project, including in the project’s global steering committee.
The program focuses on the meaningful inclusion and engagement of People Living with HIV to fully claim our space in Global Fund processes and claim our role in ensuring more effective and inclusive development implementation and oversight of Global Fund grants through community forums, to build consensus on national priorities and advocate collectively across policy fora (e.g., CCMs, TWGs, country dialogues).
The objective is to:
Amplify the participation and voice of all communities of people living with HIV.
Strengthen the influence of all communities of people living with HIV on the design and implementation of national strategies and plans.
To empower all communities of people living with HIV to generate and use data monitoring program coverage, utilizing evidence generated for advocacy and programmatic action.
The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, coordinated by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), is one of the world’s oldest and largest grassroots mobilisation campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place every third Sunday in May and is led by a coalition of community organisations in many countries.
There have been thousands of events organised across the world by community-based organisations, from motorbike rallies by women living with HIV to uplifting ceremonies in places of worship and workplaces.
The Candlelight Memorial serves as a community mobilisation campaign to raise social consciousness about HIV and AIDS. With 38 million people living with HIV today, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial serves as an important platform for global solidarity, breaking down barriers of stigma and discrimination, and giving hope to new generations.
As the global networks of people living with HIV we have come together to work towards the 2030 goal to end AIDS. A Life Force of 11 people living with HIV, representing diverse communities and countries from across the world, bring their technical expertise, skills and most importantly their lived experiences to guide our work. We have begun a process of national and regional dialogues that will lead to the creation of a shared roadmap for our global advocacy as we strive towards the 2030 goals.
What are we doing?
In partnership with ICW and Y+ we have set out to:
Hear and share what’s happening in peoples’ lives across regions
Seek input and hold dialogues to agree common priorities
Share and propose solutions to the most pressing challenges
Mobilise and collaborate to influence key processes
Show solidarity and support activism at national, regional and global
Promote greater youth leadership and diversity at all levels
Love Alliance is a partnership to build a unifying, strong pan-African movement that promotes access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for people most marginalized and affected by HIV – including sex workers, people who use drugs, LGBTQI+ communities, and people living with HIV, adolescents, and young people within these communities.
GNP+ is the Global Advocacy lead for Love Alliance and together with Aidsfonds coordinate the Advocacy working group.
The objective of this program is to strengthen The Advocacy Loop – Using evidence and connecting our advocacy to national, regional, and global advocacy levels.
Read the updates on the work of the Love Alliance. If you are a network of people living with HIV or a key population organisation and would like to explore opportunities for joint advocacy, then get in touch.
We are united in our belief that the way forward for the dignity, health and well-being of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in all their diversity lies in identifying and addressing barriers to accountable, effective and non-discriminatory healthcare.
The objective of Positive Universe is to foster mutual learning, capacity strengthening, and progression around Universal Health Coverage (UHC) that increases the level of expertise for all. Inform and educate the community on UHC and support the community on how to get involved in UHC discussions at a national level.
Get involved
Click here to see our UHC advocacy toolkit – with 10 actions you can do. It’s available in English, Russian and French.
The Global Partnership is an initiative to celebrate and replicate our successes across the world.
The objective of this program is to generate and disseminate evidence-based data to inform policy & programming, progress, and support accountability. And to revitalise, strengthen synergies & partnerships to implement & scale up programs, translating political & human rights commitments into country action on eliminating Stigma & Discrimination.
An advocates’ guide to monitoring stigma and discrimination reduction in the Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination! Download the guide in your language below:
The objective of this program is to transform the greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GIPA) principle into actions in the journey to eliminate HIV-related stigma and discrimination.
Governments across the world use national laws to prosecute people living with HIV, particularly for not disclosing their HIV status, potentially exposing others to HIV (or being thought to), and unintentional HIV transmission.
HIV criminalisation is not only an abuse of human rights but each time someone is prosecuted it adds to the stigma faced by people living with HIV and reinforces discriminatory messages.
What are we doing?
We use our influence on global platforms to call for the decriminalisation of HIV. GNP+ is one of the founding partners of HIV Justice Worldwide – a global coalition that campaigns to abolish laws, policies and practices that regulate, control and punish people based on their HIV-positive status. Through the coalition, we monitor HIV criminalisation laws and prosecutions and build the capacity of communities of people living with HIV to understand the impact of criminalisation on HIV prevention, treatment and care and to engage in advocacy.
Over recent years there has been a spike in HIV criminalisation in some parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. So, we have joined EWNA and the SOS Project to create a regional hub to monitor criminalisation, develop advocacy campaigns and provide education and training. We also support national organisations in the region that are working to decriminalise HIV and offer small grants for local level advocacy.
