The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is ‘Let communities lead’ – Engagement at the grassroots level is vital, people and communities must be in the driving seat - this is a key principle that cuts across the European Programme of Work, which guides what WHO/Europe does. Stigma and discrimination have no place in healthcare. Isolation and exclusion do not stop epidemics. Engagement and trust do. With the resources and technology available to us to diagnose, treat and prevent transmission, no-one in the WHO European Region should be developing AIDS, let alone dying of it.
A World AIDS Day 2023 message from Dr Hans Kluge, Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe
