The objective of this satellite symposium is to present the added-value of community-based research in terms of sciences, transformative actions and political decisions in the field of HIV. More specifically, we will be discussing how community-based research has contributed to align the objectives of researchers and communities while allowing decision makers to make important public health programmatic and policy decisions. Based on empirical examples coming from France and partner countries in the Global South, the symposium will be highlighting how community-based research has evolved and deployed over time, starting in the 2000s with rapid HIV tests and then PreP, and how the co-construction and implementation of projects by communities and scientists have been critical to influence public health policies. The panel will then be expanded to the presentation of community research projects, jointly developed by various stakeholders, with a focus on transformations induced by research projects on political decisions as well as programmatic actions and community practices. Finally, we will discuss the perspectives and challenges for the future of community-based research, including in the field of emerging infectious diseases.

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