Putting People at the Heart of the HIV Response

The Alliance Strategy (2016-2020) HIV, Health and Rights and theory of change describe ‘using a person-centred approach’ to increase access to quality HIV and health services and to realise the human rights of people living with HIV and others affected by HIV.

As the HIV response becomes increasingly biomedical, we believe it must also be firmly embedded in rights-based and community-led approaches, and in the principles of Greater Involvement of People living with HIV and Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention, all of which have been the bedrock of the AIDS response so far.

At its most basic level, we look at health from an individual perspective, placing individuals at the centre of our HIV response. We consider health as much more than the absence of illness and think holistically about an individual’s full range of needs, desires, capacities and human rights.