Asia Pacific community leaders share strategies at World AIDS Day report launch

Posted on December 14, 2023 By unaidsap

The regional, virtual launch of the UNAIDS World AIDS Day 2023 report, Let Communities Lead, brought together community representatives from across the region. They were briefed about key messages from the report and how they intersect with the realities of the HIV epidemic and response in Asia and the Pacific. They also learned about innovative social and news media strategies from diverse community leaders. Here are the highlights.

View the full report launch hosted by UNAIDS Asia Pacific Goodwill Ambassador, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach:

View the 2023 World AIDS Day Asia Pacific report overview by Regional Director, Eamonn Murphy:

Download the regional World AIDS Day 2023 slide deck:

Hear from sex worker advocate, Bhagya Lakshmi, who is featured in the Let Communities Lead report:

Soundbites

ICW AP Program Manager, Sita Shahi on the need to properly compensate peer navigators and enable community leadership in Asia Pacific.

Siripong “Arm” Srichau, Campaign Officer of testBKK at APCOM on how to make safer sex sexy:

Carahanna Marianne Samusamu, Media Campaign and Communication Coordinator of GWL_INA on adapting testBKK for Jakarta, Indonesia (testJKT):

Viet Trinh, Program Director of Lighthouse Social Enterprise on crafting sex positive social media campaigns to drive LGBT service uptake:

Noemi Leis, Program Manager of the TLF Share Collective shares a novel community-led initiative to build the capacity of Philippines journalists to cover HIV and key population issues in a more responsible manner: