The People’s Declaration—currently with over 500 signatories, charts out a number of community priorities and demands—as noted below. Please join The Choice Agenda, The Legacy Project, and a fabulous global panel to discuss moving those demands into actions and accountability.
To date, the discourse surrounding these actions has focused largely on the devastation to grants, dollars, and institutions. Here, we center people instead—the communities who stand to suffer the harshest consequences of these actions. Here, we remind the world that the first letter in HIV stands for human.
- We demand substantive, meaningful inclusion of community in every aspect of HIV research, from protocol development to study implementation to the dissemination of clinical trial results.
- We demand diversity, equity, and inclusion amongst the scientific teams conducting HIV research.
- We demand diversity, equity, and inclusion across all community stakeholder engagement activities.
- We demand diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment of clinical trial participants who accurately reflect the epidemic.
Click to read the full declaration and sign on if you haven’t already!
Moderator
- Brian Minalga, Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC)
Panelists
- Adrian Williams, Florida State University, Institute on Digital Health & Innovation & AW DEI Consulting Inc
- Asia Russell, Health GAP JD Davids, JD Strategies, Patient Led Research Collaborative
- Luciana Kamel, HIV Community Advocate, Brazil
- Moses Supercharger, Joint Adherent Brothers and Sisters Against AIDS, Uganda
- Rebecca Denison, Advocate, USA
