This year the strongest messages from the opening of the IAS conference at IAS 2025 came from community delegates who took to the stage to say clearly and with pride “we will not be erased”.
These activists expressed the collective rage over the lack of a crisis response from governments to the withdrawal of international HIV funding since January or from many international organisations who stayed silent (though not IAS who immediately spoke out).
This has included the overnight closure of thousands of health clinics developed by and for key populations over decades. These clinics had provided HIV and other health care for people at the highest risk. They provided care to people who could never trust government clinics – and trying to direct people now to ‘integrate’ into government services risks not just their health but also their lives.
These activist statements spoke to the shame of scientists and politicians who have changed language and erased communities from funding, healthcare and documentation in the AIDS response.
Especially recent attempts to erase transgender and non-binary people.
Access their speeches at HIV i-Base.
Source : HIV i-Base
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