Luiz Loures, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS with women from the Women Living with HIV Speak Out meeting during the AIDS 2014 Conference. Melbourne, 22 July 2014.

Harnessing the power and reach of the media to challenge HIV-related stigma and discrimination and champion human rights has long been a goal of the AIDS response. At this week’s 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, UNAIDS and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting cohosted an event to explore exactly how this can be done.

Harnessing the power and reach of the media to challenge HIV-related stigma and discrimination and champion human rights has long been a goal of the AIDS response. At this week’s 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, UNAIDS and the Pulitzer Centre co-hosted an event to explore exactly how this can be done.

UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Luiz Loures co-chaired the session Gay and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: Prevention within an Accelerating Epidemic with Dede Oetomo at the AIDS 2014 Conference in Melbourne, Australia, 24 July 2014. The panel members are Colin Stewart Brown, Ibrahim Suleiman, Kelika A. Konda, Sarika Pattanasin and Colleen Hoff.

UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Luiz Loures and Lambert Grijns, Dutch Ambassador for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV/AIDS at the Dutch satellite event Bridging the Gaps, organised in memory of lost colleague Martine de Schutter.

All In for Adolescents roundtable. Melbourne, 23 July 2014.

UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Luiz Loures at an AIDS 2014 Conference youth event with UNESCO at ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne, 21 July 2014.

Harnessing the power and reach of the media to challenge HIV-related stigma and discrimination and champion human rights has long been a goal of the AIDS response. At this week’s 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, UNAIDS and the Pulitzer Centre co-hosted an event to explore exactly how this can be done.

Harnessing the power and reach of the media to challenge HIV-related stigma and discrimination and champion human rights has long been a goal of the AIDS response. At this week’s 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, UNAIDS and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting cohosted an event to explore exactly how this can be done.

The Global Health Sector Strategy on HIV/AIDS 2011–2015, adopted by World Health Organization Member States in 2011, provides an ambitious framework for the health sector response to HIV.

The Global Health Sector Strategy on HIV/AIDS 2011–2015, adopted by World Health Organization Member States in 2011, provides an ambitious framework for the health sector response to HIV. 

AIDS 2014 candlelight vigil at Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 22 July 2014.

Melbourne Convention Centre. 23 July 2014.