The Panel Discussion will feature panelists that will help guide discussions on HIV prevention, youth living with HIV, barriers to care, intersectionality and priorities for research and systems change. It will be an interactive space where young leaders and more experienced researchers will exchange, network, and explore new creative research ideas for the future.

Challenge assumptions, encourage respectful debate, and spark discussion about the current HIV response. Debate HIV criminalization, disclosure, funding priorities, youth leadership, and who shapes HIV policy.

As the HIV response faces changing political and funding realities, this session explores what it will take to ensure young people remain at the centre of decision-making. Panellists will discuss meaningful youth engagement, integrated health approaches and the investments needed to strengthen youth-led responses for the future.

For generations, Somali gabay has been used to challenge injustice, resist oppression, preserve history, and hold leaders accountable. This workshop introduces participants to gabay as a powerful advocacy tool and invites them to use poetry to speak truth to power on issues affecting their communities today.

Young LGBTIQ+ people are navigating growing challenges, from shrinking civic space to increasing barriers to accessing HIV services. This session will explore how communities, donors and partners can work together to safeguard young leaders, strengthen community-led responses and protect progress in the HIV response.

Este painel tensiona o discurso oficial de "eliminação da transmissão vertical" ao dar visibilidade às trajetórias reais de mulheres que nasceram e cresceram vivendo com HIV. A partir de uma roda de conversa intergeracional com mulheres em diferentes fases da vida, o espaço debate o estigma social, os desafios no pré-natal e na saúde reprodutiva, a comunicação com profissionais de saúde e as perspectivas e medos sobre o envelhecimento com o vírus.

The Chemsex Peru Social Project was created as a community-based response to an underrecognized reality affecting people who use substances and, in many cases, people living with HIV. This session is intended for young people, researchers, activists, healthcare professionals, and community organizations interested in learning about innovative community-led interventions.

During the session, we will present the results of the project and the pilot study conducted last year, highlighting the key lessons learned, challenges encountered, and opportunities identified throughout its implementation. We will also discuss the social and public health implications of chemsex in the Peruvian context, as well as the initiatives our organization has undertaken to generate evidence, raise awareness, and strengthen the response to this issue through a human rights, harm reduction, and community engagement approach.

Este painel debate o papel central da informação científica atualizada — especialmente o conceito de I=0 (Indetectável = Zero transmissão) — como uma ferramenta libertadora de combate à sorofobia e à culpabilização. A partir da Educação Popular em Saúde, do uso de linguagens criativas e da mobilização comunitária entre pares (como nas redes de tuberculose e adesão), o debate aborda as dores e os desafios reais dos jovens ao revelar seu status sorológico, lidar com a saúde mental e construir estratégias coletivas de adesão contínua ao tratamento e quebra das cadeias de transmissão.