CORE Knowledge Hub Webinar # 3 | Effective Engagement Strategies for Migrant Communities in Europe in HIV Testing Initiatives

The CORE project is pleased to invite you to the webinar “Effective Engagement Strategies for Migrant Communities in Europe in HIV Testing Initiatives”, on 11 June 2025 at 14:00 – 15:00 CET (15:00 – 16:00 EET).

About the webinar: Migrant communities across Europe face significant challenges in accessing healthcare services, including HIV testing. Legal, structural, and cultural barriers—along with stigma, language difficulties, and discrimination—often prevent migrants from seeking timely HIV testing and care. This webinar will explore innovative engagement strategies that organisations, healthcare providers, and community advocates can use to improve HIV testing uptake among migrant populations.

Webinar objectives:

• Identify key barriers that hinder HIV testing among migrant communities in Europe.
• Highlight successful models and community-led engagement approaches.
• Discuss culturally sensitive communication strategies to encourage HIV testing.
• Examine the role of peer educators and trusted community networks in outreach efforts.
• Provide actionable recommendations for policymakers, healthcare professionals, and community organisations.

Expected outcomes: 

• Better understanding of the data gaps and policy landscape for HIV care access for migrants in Europe.
• Greater appreciation of the effectiveness of community-led HIV and STI testing models.
• Increased understanding of the challenges that key population migrants e.g. trans migrants face in HIV Care Continuum.
• Practical recommendations for improving HIV testing engagement and access among migrant communities.

To attend the webinar, please register here.  

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.

CORE Knowledge Hub – Community Skill Boosting Sessions

The Knowledge Hub is introducing a series of meetings aimed at sharing best practices in community health services for communities most affected by HIV, TB, viral hepatitis and STIs. The Hub will also be a place where community organisations and partners can share experience and discuss solutions to issues encountered. The meetings will be recorded for post-event sharing on the CORE website.

The Knowledge Hub consists of Webinars organised by the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), Correlation European Harm Reduction Network (C-EHRN), European Sex Workers Alliance (ESWA) and Africa Advocacy Foundation (Work Package 6) and Workshops co-organised Deutsche Aidshilfe (DAH), C-EHRN, ESWA, and Africa Advocacy Foundation (Work Package 4).

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