Living 2008

The LIVING 2008 partnership is proud to announce the 12th International Conference for People Living with HIV, LIVING 2008: The Positive Leadership Summit. The Summit will be held in Mexico-City, from July 31st to August 1, 2008, just prior to the 17th International AIDS Conference AIDS 2008.

LIVING 2008: The Positive Leadership Summit will harness the diversity of knowledge and experience of people living with HIV (PLHIV). There will be a high degree of interaction between PLHIV delegates and the conference will be a mix of visionary plenary, topic driven sessions, skills-building sessions, themed discussion round tables, and networking sessions based on geographical groupings, populations and identities.

LIVING 2008: The Positive Leadership Summit will highlight the following themes:

  • Universal access to HIV treatment, care and prevention programmes;
  • Prevention, with a focus on Positive Prevention;
  • Sexual and reproductive health and rights of people living with HIV;
  • Criminalization of the transmission of HIV;
  • Cross cutting issues include women and most at-risk groups.

The PLHIV-focussed themes of LIVING 2008 will be an important component of AIDS 2008. With a unique and current perspective on treatment, care and prevention issues and HIV-related stigma and discrimination, LIVING 2008 delegates will lead within AIDS 2008. At the start of AIDS 2008 a large plenary satellite will present the outcomes of key sessions of LIVING 2008: The Positive Leadership Summit.