Advocacy and Health Policy

EACS is willing to actively engage in the formulation of public health policies. This entails the establishment of partnerships, continuous external-relations management, studies, revision and elaboration of policy papers such as consensus statements, policy briefs, calls-to-action, among others, one-on-one meetings with key stakeholders, hosting think-tanks and other policy events, such as roundtable discussions and high-level meetings.

Aligned with the current EACS’ Strategy 2025 – 2027, the Advocacy and Health Policy work will focus on the following topics, to ensure political and societal commitment:

Standardising HIV care across the WHO European Region
Strengthening and harmonising HIV monitoring across the WHO European Region
Incorporate HIV in the current and upcoming EU action plans

Events

EU Roundtable Discussion- 30 June 2025: On 30 June 2025, EACS co-hosted alongside MEP Krzysztof Śmiszek (Poland), an EU Roundtable Discussion entitled “Collaborative Solidarity – Achieving the 2030 HIV targets as one Europe”. The goal was to generate consensus on the top three priorities to ask the EU Parliament to act on, in terms of HIV and to define specific pathways to move forward, ensuring accountability across all stakeholders.