Global AIDS update 2019 — Communities at the centre
UNAIDS - "Defending rights, breaking barriers, reaching people with HIV services. The epidemic is changing: in 2018, more than half of all new HIV infections were among key populations - sex workers, people who use drugs, gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender people and prisoners - and their partners.
(...) When communities organize and people empower each other, oppression can be replaced by rights and access to HIV services can be accelerated. Peer-to-peer counsellors, community health workers, door-to-door service providers, grass-roots activists and networks of people living with or affected by HIV all have key roles to play in the response to HIV. As this report shows, community leadership in the AIDS response helps to ensure that HIV services are relevant to, and reach, the people who need them the most." (Photo: UNAMID/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)