Time for a GIPA refresh
International AIDS Society - "Perhaps the single most important characteristic of the AIDS response – one that holds lessons about efforts to address other health challenges – is the central contribution of people living with HIV and those in the communities who have borne the brunt of HIV, including LGBTI people, sex workers, and people who use drugs. For no other health problem has the involvement of affected individuals played so vital a role.
The emphasis on empowerment and autonomy of people living with HIV stretches back to the beginning of the AIDS response: in 1983, the Denver Principles condemned efforts to label people living with HIV as passive victims. In Paris in 1994, 42 heads of state and national representatives endorsed the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS, or GIPA." (By Laurel Sprague, Executive Director of The Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+)) Photo: William Hamon/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)