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11/06/2026

Our 2025 Annual Report is live. From Shock to Strategy: Communities Leading in a Time of Rupture is the story of one of the hardest years in recent global health history, and the communities who refused to give up on one another.

In this video, Executive Director Solange Baptiste shares what 2025 meant to her, and why communities are at the heart of this report. https://youtu.be/vnGSzbNqUGU

When Solange entered 2025, she was carrying grief after losing her mother. She thought it would be a year of healing. Instead, it became a year of crisis. And as she spoke to communities around the world, she realized she wasn't the only one carrying grief. Communities were grieving too: lost programs, lost services, lost jobs, lost loved ones.

But communities also showed another way. When funding was cut and systems began to falter, they didn't wait to be rescued. They organized, gathered evidence, and kept people connected to treatment and care.

This year's annual report is not a story about crisis. It is a story about communities leading in a time of rupture, and showing us what resilience looks like when the future feels uncertain.

Read the full report 👉 https://shorturl.at/3UW9T

In 2025, communities around the world faced rupture. Funding was cu...

11/06/2026

What if the problem is not how the game is played — but the game itself?

At the Future of HIV Markets Forum in Nairobi, ITPC's Othoman Mellouk made the case that for too long, innovation has been organised around commercial portfolios and market incentives, not public health needs. The results: medicines that remain unaffordable, and evergreening that keeps millions waiting for access.

Real change means measuring innovation not by the number of new products, but by who can actually access them.

Innovation without access is not progress. It is inequality.

10/06/2026

10/06/2026

The Global AI Survey for Communities is now available in French and English. Spanish and Russian are coming soon.

AI tools are being built and rolled out right now, often without the communities most affected having any say. We've extended the survey period to make sure as many community voices as possible are included in the findings. Share your experience, your concerns, and your ideas before it closes on 30 June.

It takes 10 minutes and is 100% anonymous. Share this with someone whose voice belongs in this conversation.

👉 https://shorturl.at/hoqW1

03/06/2026

SAVE THE DATE: The ITPC Global Treatment Pre-Conference at AIDS 2026 is coming to Rio de Janeiro on 26 July 2026, and online.

Register now to receive updates on speakers and programming: 👉 https://shorturl.at/kw2Xn

For more than four decades, communities have been at the forefront of the fight for equitable access to HIV treatment. Today, that progress is under pressure. Funding cuts, political shifts, shrinking civic space, and growing inequalities threaten hard-won gains, even as new scientific breakthroughs offer unprecedented opportunities.

This is not a moment to step back. It is a moment to come together.

At this critical moment, ITPC is bringing together activists, community leaders, researchers, advocates, and policymakers from around the world to take stock of where the HIV response stands and chart the path forward on treatment justice, affordability, accountability, and community power.

The Treatment pre-conference is open to all AIDS 2026 delegates, whether you are joining us in Rio or online.

The conversations we have on 26 July will help shape the future of the HIV response through AIDS 2028 and beyond. Communities must not only be consulted, they must help shape what comes next.

02/06/2026

The Law Reform Academy on Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS-plus provisions is underway! 🌍

Yesterday, over 50 treatment activists, researchers, lawyers, and advocates from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Asia-Pacific came together for the opening of this powerful learning space, organized by ITPC's Make Medicines Affordable campaign.

Day one set the foundation: a sharp look at how free trade agreements and TRIPS-plus measures are being used to delay generic medicines, extend monopolies, and push medicines further out of reach for people who need them the most.

Participants didn't just listen. They shared their own country and regional experiences, surfacing the common patterns that make this a global fight, not just a local one.

Over the coming days, the Academy goes deeper: patent evergreening, data exclusivity, patent linkage, compulsory licensing, and how communities and advocates can push back.

This is what collective power looks like. Knowledge shared. Strategies built. Solidarity in action.

28/05/2026

No reform without representation.

Last week at the 79th World Health Assembly, Member States approved a World Health Organization (WHO)-hosted joint process to reform the global health architecture.

The 25-member Task Force that will govern this reform includes Member States, global health initiatives, UN entities and the World Bank.

It includes no seats for civil society or people with lived experience of health conditions and inequities.

The HEAR CSO Consortium has issued a statement in response.
Read here: https://bit.ly/HEAR-JTF-Statement

“At a crucial moment that calls for identification and application of best practices across global health, more innovation, and institutional commitment to creating and supporting civic space and accountability mechanisms, the WHO-hosted joint process is abandoning the progress toward inclusive governance that people living with health conditions and impacted by inequities and other civil society have secured over the past twenty years.”

We call on the WHO and all Task Force members to constitute decision-making spaces that include people living with health conditions and impacted by inequities and other civil society.

At the 79th World Health Assembly, Member States approved a WHO-hosted joint process to reform the global health architecture, with a 25-member Task Force that includes no seats for civil society or people with lived experience of health conditions and inequities. The HEAR CSO Steering Committee dev...

27/05/2026

📢 We're hiring

ITPC is seeking an MMA Program Assistant to support our Make Medicines Affordable program.

This is a full-time, 100% remote role, with a fixed term ending December 31, 2027.

The role involves coordinating partnerships, supporting program administration, managing logistics, and providing executive-level support to our Access to Diagnostics and Medicines Lead. It's a dynamic position at the heart of ITPC's global health advocacy work.

We welcome applications from people living with HIV, women, young people, LGBTQI+ persons, and individuals from communities most affected by health inequities.

📅 Closing date: June 15, 2026, at 5:00 PM South Africa time
📩 Apply to: https://shorturl.at/yZar7

27/05/2026

📣 You are invited! Join us for a webinar on 02 June 2026 as ITPC and UNAIDS launch the Global HIV Literacy Guide.

💬 HIV Funding Cuts, Rising Challenges: Why HIV Literacy Matters More Than Ever

In a time of growing funding uncertainty and misinformation, HIV literacy is more than knowledge, it is a tool for community leadership, advocacy, and access to quality care.

Hear from community leaders and advocates:
🎙️ Fodè Simaga (UNAIDS)
🎙️ Tracy Swan (ITPC Global)
🎙️ Jeffrey Walimbwa (ISHTAR)
🎙️ Zakaria Bahtout (ITPC MENA)
🎙️ Deo Mutambuka (RRP+)

🗓️ 02 June 2026
⏰ 14:00–15:30 SAST
💻 Zoom Webinar
🌐 French interpretation available

👉 Register here: https://shorturl.at/UEWXa

Please share this widely with your networks! 📲

25/05/2026

"AI must be a tool in the hands of the community, not a replacement for the community."

ITPC Executive Director Solange Baptiste joined the Explore Global Health podcast for a frank and urgent conversation about artificial intelligence, data justice, and community power in global health, recorded live at the CUGH annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Solange speaks about something that gets too little attention in discussions about AI and health: who actually owns community data, and what goes back to communities when large institutions build systems from it?

She also addresses the risk that AI, in the wrong hands, can reinforce the very inequities that global health exists to address.

Her message is not anti-technology. It is pro-community. The people most affected by health challenges must help design the solutions, and no algorithm replaces the judgment, context, and lived experience they bring.

She also shares a moving message for young people entering global health: find your purpose, stay anchored to it, and use your voice to represent those who are not in the room.

🎧 Listen now: https://shorturl.at/RDeBq

Also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.