CORE Multi-Stakeholders' Meeting | Resilience in Times of Uncertainty: Advancing Community-Led Health Responses through Collaboration

As part of the CORE (COmmunity REsponse to End Inequalities) Project, European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) and AIDS Action Europe (AAE), together with Africa Advocacy Foundation, Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network and European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance (ESWA), are organising a CORE Project Concluding Multi-Stakeholders’ Meeting – “Resilience in Times of Uncertainty: Advancing Community-Led Health Responses through Collaboration” – on 5^th of December 2025 at 09:00 – 13:00, in Berlin, Germany.

CORE Multi-Stakeholders’ Meeting | Resilience in Times of Uncertainty: Advancing Community-Led Health Responses through Collaboration

Date: 5 December 2025

Time: 09:00 – 13:00 CET

Venue: Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe | Wilhelmstraße 138, 10963 Berlin, Germany

By invitation only

For the last three years, the CORE project worked with local partners across ten EU countries to implement innovative community-based service models, strengthen local stakeholder networks, and promote inclusive services. The concluding multi-stakeholder meeting aims to convene community-based groups, broader civil society partners, relevant EU/UN/WHO agencies, and politicians to reflect, and co-create strategies for resilience, integration and advocacy in times of uncertainty. Specifically, the event will:

• Present CORE Project results and lessons learned including sustaining and transferring its learnings and tools.
• Provide perspectives from diverse stakeholders on strengthening community systems, promoting innovations and equity in health.
• Explore resilience strategies.
• Discuss potential directions for sustaining and promoting community-led health responses for ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health concern.

This meeting takes place in the times of ongoing geopolitical crises and the limited fiscal space for health which amplify systemic vulnerabilities related to HIV, STIs and viral hepatitis. The CORE project supported partners report funding uncertainties for community-led responses and the lagging progress on protecting rights and social security of people who use drugs, sex workers, gay and other men who have sex with men, people in prisons, trans and gender diverse people. In Eastern Europe where HIV continues to grow, stakeholders are grappling with the withdrawal of international donors, insufficient domestic political will, and already fragile community infrastructure.

Agenda

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About the CORE project

The CORE Project (“Community Response to End Inequalities”) aims to reduce inequalities by promoting, strengthening and integrating the community responses that have proven key in bringing services closer to persons who would benefit most but face inadequate access, in particular countries where these responses are still lacking. This will happen through capacity building, networking, and the exchange of good practice and innovative approaches, as well as through a proactive outreach and engagement of relevant stakeholders, while addressing legal, policy, and structural issues to promote integration of these approaches into disease prevention and health promotion strategies and systems.

The CORE project will build on and intensify collaboration of regional networks and national and local organisations of people living with HIV, key populations, and service provider organisations. It will use, adapt, and disseminate existing national, regional, and global good practice approaches and tools from across key populations and disease areas, and provide platforms for exchange.

Read more about the CORE consortium and its plan of action here: https://core-action.eu/core-home.

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The CORE project has received funding from the Health Programme of the European Union under grant agreement No 101080079.