How the SCOPE project is strengthening community-led services and supports community advocacy to overcome disruptions
BACKGROUND
At EATG’s Community in Scope workshop, we reaffirmed that community-led services are the backbone of the HIV response, and that amplifying community voices is more urgent than ever. In the face of funding crises and ongoing attacks on human rights, the SCOPE project provides a platform for mutual exchange, learning, and collective action — crucial elements for leading the way forward.
OUR WAY TO TRANSFORM
This work resonates directly with UNAIDS 2025 World AIDS Day theme: “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response.”
Back in July 2025, we met in Berlin with community representatives who work locally across Europe and Central Asia, as well as members of the SCOPE Community Expert Group, who have played a key role in shaping and guiding the project, to hear firsthand why SCOPE is so important.
The message was clear: sharing knowledge and learning from one another make us unstoppable when we stand together. At a time when HIV prevention services are being disrupted by funding cuts and community-led services risk being deprioritised, joint efforts such as the SCOPE project are more vital than ever.
COMMUNITY IN SCOPE
Today, we are sharing a video shot during the meeting with the voices of Amanita, Marco, Hmayak, Vera and Djamila resonating this oncoming transformation and the need to welcome and support it. Listen to how, through SCOPE, we are strengthening community engagement at local and regional levels and closing the gaps in access to HIV combination prevention services. By placing communities at the centre -especially those most marginalised- we reflect on the transformation UNAIDS calls for: empowering communities to lead the way forward.
ON THIS WORLD AIDS DAY
As UNAIDS urges global leaders to step up, we reaffirm our commitment. Political leadership, international cooperation, human-rights-centred approaches, and, above all, the strengths of communities are not optional; they are essential.
Learn more about SCOPE: https://www.eatg.org/projects/scope/
The SCOPE project has been developed by the EATG and was made possible through a grant from ViiV Healthcare Europe Ltd.
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Cast of Interviewees
Hmayak Avetisyan
Amanita Calderón-Cifuentes
Vera Rodriguez
Djamila Schäffler
Marco Stizioli
Executive Production & Direction
Apostolos Kalogiannis
Chiara Longhi
Videographer
Olivia Newport
Producer/Camera Assistant
Púca Kerney
The shooting of the video took place in Berlin, Germany (1-2 July 2025) during the Community in Scope: A Workshop on HIV Combination Prevention.
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