Session: Advancing Health & Wellbeing: lessons from Aidsfonds & COC Netherlands
Time: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2026
Location: 0.6 - Keurzaal
Track: Health & Wellbeing
Description
LGBTQIA+ rights advocacy directly enhances community health and wellbeing. This session highlights concrete, community-driven examples of successful strategies linking community wellbeing to the need to improve LGBTQIA+ rights. With experts from the field we discuss how to call on decision-makers to invest in inclusive, rights-based health programs, how to advocate effectively for health rights, and how to protect our own health and wellbeing.
Aidsfonds is one of the largest HIV-specific funders in the world, directly supporting communities with long-term, flexible, and core funding and funding for advocacy. COC Netherlands is a Dutch LGBTQIA+ rights group founded in 1946, and the oldest still operating LGBTQIA+ organisation in the world.