Prioritization under pressure: Bringing communities to the centre of HIV programme decisions

As HIV programmes navigate constrained resources and a changing funding landscape, stakeholders are making difficult choices about which services and interventions to protect, adapt, scale or reduce. Communities and people living with HIV must have a meaningful role in shaping these decisions. This interactive webinar, jointly organized by IAS – the International AIDS Society – and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), explored how communities can engage in and influence HIV programme prioritization. The session applied a hypothetical prioritization scenario, audience polling, country and community perspectives, and an introduction to TIER-Plus. Together, these were be used to examine how modelling and programme data can be combined with community-generated evidence and lived experience to inform more transparent, equitable and evidence-informed decisions.