What is AIDSWatch?

AIDSWatch is the largest, constituent-based national HIV advocacy event. While typically held in person in Washington, D.C., AIDSWatch 2020 was held virtually in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each year AIDSWatch brings together hundreds of people living with HIV and their allies to learn about the latest policy issues, messaging strategy and advocacy tactics.

We now have the knowledge and tools to end the HIV epidemic in America, and federal officials have committed to doing so in the next 10 years. However, meeting this goal will require substantial scale-up of solutions, removal of barriers and real leadership.

There must be collaboration — across the political aisle, between federal, state and local governments and between the public and private sectors. Solutions must be based on scientific evidence and human rights. We can make the unprecedented opportunity of ending the HIV epidemic in America a reality by providing the resources, policies and programs necessary to ensure that HIV prevention, care, treatment and support services are widely available.

AIDSWatch: Road to Resiliency

On Sept. 29-30, we held a special session of AIDSWatch which brought together everyone in the HIV field — from funders to activists — to discuss how we sustain our advocacy around ending the HIV epidemic in the United States, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and with a focus on racial justice.

Presented by AIDS United, and in partnership with the US PLHIV Caucus and the Treatment Access Expansion Project, this convening was a follow up six months after AIDSWatch earlier this year.

Recordings of each of the sessions will be available in the coming weeks.

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