Eliane's blog

Let's support local HIV action to continue bringing positive changes to our HIV communities!

Last year when visiting my HIV allies in South Korea I realized that HIV stigma is still very high in South Korea, so even today you will hardly see people open about HIV.

In my home country Burundi there are 13.24 million people of which 2.9% are living with HIV. This means 383,000 people! Many of them still do not have reliable access to HIV treatment and HIV stigma and prejudices are still widespread throughout Burundi.

While we have made great strides towards empowering people living with HIV in places such as the Netherlands, PLWHIV with a migrant background continue to be hardly seen or heard.

We all know that PrEP is an important way to prevent HIV, but did you know that ... PrEP is for people of all ages and in all phases of life experiences.

The harsh reality is that there are way too few organisations in our HIV community that are actively promoting PrEP access.

Mi querida gente, prometí compartir con ustedes mi aprendizaje de SIDA 2024 en Múnich.

My lovely people, I promised to share my learning from AIDS 2024 in Munich with you. The two days I spent at the Global Village were quite fruitful as an activist.

Are you talented and never let HIV stigma stand in your way? We are looking for talents to share their experience during World AIDS day on the 1st of December 2024.

I have been visiting Japan and Korea over the past 5 weeks. That is why you haven't heard from me. I would like to share my learning from those two countries.