Speakers

A neurobiologist and psychologist by training, Abdurahman Mah is committed to promoting - as a community health project manager at Dialogai - a positive vision of mental health, in particular for people with a minority gender identity or affective and sexual orientation. The mental health promotion strategy he puts in place is based on concepts such as the emergence of psychosocial resources as a bulwark against structural risk factors. He is also involved in raising awareness and training actors in the health and social fields in Geneva, with the aim of ensuring quality care for LGBTIQ+ people. Finally, he is certified as an ensa instructor - Mental Health First Aid - by the Swiss Foundation Pro Mente Sana. In this context, he contributed to the adaptation of the mental health first aid method for the LGBTIQ+ population.

Alexia Decouis is an activist in the French association AIDeS, an association for the fight against HIV/AIDS,

for 19 years. National administrator since 2021, she is particularly invested in the community health issues of LGBTI+ people. She participated in the development of the plan for equality, against hatred and anti-LGBTI+ discrimination in collaboration with

the two French inter-associative collectives, the ministries as well as their delegations.

Project manager for Ex Æquo's actions in Wallonia, Antoine Leux is on regular duty in 4 of the 7 Walloon Rainbow Houses, present at places of sexual encounters with, in particular, a mobile screening unit. He is responsible for supporting a group of volunteers who work on dating applications and sending free risk reduction materials at home (sex and drugs) via the association's online store visited by more than 14,000 users in 2022. Antoine is also responsible for coordinating the working group organizing convivial activities for the gay community in Brussels and Wallonia.

Clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, chemsex project manager and mental health referent at Ex Aequo, Arturo Mazzeo provides individual psychological consultations for the LGBTQIA+ community and co-hosts the "let's talk about chemsex" discussion groups with peer helpers at intended for users who wish to question and/or stop their drug consumption. He runs the Chemsex Brussels professional network and supports volunteers to develop the association's chemsex system. Arturo trains mental health professionals on the specific needs and pathways of MSM and MSM who use drugs. 

Audrey Aegerter is a doctoral student at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a young researcher within the framework of the European project INIA (Intersex – New Interdisciplinary Approaches). Her research focuses on the emergence of the intersex movement in Europe, looking at the journeys taken by intersex people to become intersex activists. Through this research, she has observed how support groups offer participants a space to get rid of the pathologization of their bodies, while highlighting certain issues related to hormone intake and sexuality. She emphasizes the importance of community health for intersex people, who are often traumatized by the medical environment.

Aurore Dufrasne is a psychologist from the Genres Pluriels association, also a psychotherapist, sex therapist, trainer, and coordinator of the  Belgian Trans* and Inter* Psycho-medico-social network. She has worked for 11 years with her colleagues to improve access to health care for transgender and intersex people and their families. One of its means of doing this is to support a great deal of research on transidentities and intersex, at the academic level among others.

Benjamin Hampel is specialized in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Besides his clinical work he has over 20 years of experience in voluntary community work in the areas of HIV and LGBTIQ+ health. Since 2018 he is the medical co-head of the Checkpoint Zurich, Switzerland biggest voluntary counseling and testing center and STI clinic. He also founded the PrEP clinic at the University Hospital Zurich in 2017. Like his clinical work, his research is also focused on HIV prevention, people living with HIV, STIs and LGBTIQ+ health. He is the principal investigator of SwissPrEPared, a national, multicenter program and study, with the aim to improve the health care of people with a higher risk for HIV in Switzerland under the head of the Department of Public Health at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute at the University of Zurich. He is a member of the Swiss Federal Commission for Sexual Health and advisor on PrEP for WHO, ECDC and the Swiss Aids Federation.

Camille Beziane is a specialist in sexual health. They are president and head of the Klamydia’s association which has been working for 15 years for the health of lesbians, bi, panties and queer people who have a vulva. The objective of this association, made up of professionals-volunteers, is to improve access to care for lesbians, bi, panties and queer people with a vulva. To achieve this goal, Klamydia’s produces knowledge on health, particularly through FSF 2019 health survey initiated and led by Camille in collaboration with other associations in French-speaking Switzerland. At the same time, the association carries out prevention supports, games, educational videos, provides prevention for the people concerned and trains health and violence professionals. Klamydia’s approach is intersectional, transaffirmative and sex positive.

​A psychologist by training and a person directly concerned, Camille Warnier has been working with a variety of precarious publics since 2014, and since 2016 focusing more specifically on the LGBTQIA+ public. From Relais Social (Précarité) to CHEFF (youth organisation), via Prisme (institutional) and Icar Wallonie (sex work), her various jobs have enabled her to work alongside people from all walks of life and to practise in the most varied conditions. She currently works at the Maison Arc-en-Ciel in Liège as a psychologist and trainer for other professionals and future professionals.

Céline Offerle has been a volunteer with the AIDES association for 18 years. National vice-president in charge of community support for health pathways, she is also president of AIDES for the PACA region, which has two SPOT (sexual health centers) in Nice and Marseille.

Christoph Weber completed his training in internal medicine with a focus on infectious diseases and HIV at the Vivantes Auguste-Viktoria-Klinikum Berlin and worked as a doctor in the outpatient department. He completed his studies in clinical tropical medicine in Bangkok and received his diploma (DTMH) in 2012 and his master's degree (MCTM) in 2023. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a senior physician in a medical department of a large refugee shelter in Berlin. Since 2018, he has been the medical director of Checkpoint BLN, a community-based sexual health centre in Berlin. He was involved in the development and implementation of the POINT study (a study on infectious diseases among homeless people in Berlin), as well as various research on Mpox in Berlin.

Since 2018, Christopher Tocha has been working at the Checkpoint of the Aidshilfe in Cologne, where he is responsible for the organization of the HIV&STI counseling and testing service. In addition to working as a consultant, he has been involved in the conception and implementation of the digitization project for the last two and a half years.

​Christopher Altermann is currently working in the Deutsche Aidshilfe in the Team" living with HIV". He works on the project Praxis Vielfalt (practice diversity), a seal of quality for medical practices which guarantees a safe space specifically for LGBTIQ persons, people living with HIV and people with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The project has existed since 2018 and an increasing number of practices still want to register. Besides his work at the Deutsche Aidshilfe he is currently doing his degree in educational studies.

Coraline Delebarre is a liberal psychologist and sexologist at CeSaMe de l’Enipse in Paris. She is a full member of the AiUS (Interdisciplinary Post-University Association of Sexology), member of the RSSP (Public Sexual Health Network) and the ASQF (association for queer and feminist care). She is also a trainer in sexual health for professionals and a member of the educational committee of the DIU of sexology and sexual health at Paris Diderot University. She worked until 2017 in the HIV association where she specialized in the sexual and mental health of LGBT+ populations. She notably co-coordinated the "Tomber la culotte" project, a sexual health brochure for WSW Her latest study, SexoFSF, sheds important  light on the sexual and psychological realities of these people and won the Aius dissertation prize in 2018.

Dale Taylor-Gentles is a writer and social activist that worked on issues such as youth homelessness, mental health and health inequalities. He currently is the Head of Community Mobilisation at The Love Tank CIC, a not-for-profit organisation working to promote the health and wellbeing of under-served communities. Dale manages the MAUREEN project at the organisation which looks to address the health and wellbeing needs of queer men of colour and queer migrant men living in London, through research, training, community building and events.

Daniele Calzavara lives in Milan with his husband and their three big cats. He has been a person living with HIV since 2011 and his relationship is sero-discordant. Since 2017 he has been an activist in the field of HIV and sexual health. In 2019, he was among the founding members of Milano Check Point ETS, the Milanese LGBTQ+ sexual health home. Since 2020 he has been working for the association as a coordinator and peer-educator,  in charge of all aspects of sustainability, development and advocacy for the organization.

Dani Singer has been involved with community work around access to healthcare since they joined ACT UP London in 2015 and quickly volunteered to join a naked protest inside Gilead Headquarters. They started working with the Love Tank around 2017, focusing on sexual health for trans people, and they now run Safe Only, a queer nightlife agency pushing for cultural shifts in harm reduction. Earlier this year, Dani and Ben from the Love Tank hosted the first London Harm Reduction Summit, bringing together over 40 individuals in conversation about reframing drug taking in nightlife.

Denise Cullus has been present in the LGBTQIA+ community for around thirty years. A nurse by training, she is interested in issues of health and well-being of older LGBT people. She is a member of the Rainbow Ambassadors, an association which aims to give a voice to LGBTQIA+ seniors in Brussels. Currently, she is also vice-president of the non-profit association Tels Quel and is part of the administrative body of Grands Carmes, the association managing the site of the next LGBTI Community Center and the future Maison Arc-en-Ciel of Brussels Health.

Dorsa Khansir, assistant in general medicine at ULB, wrote her final medical thesis on good reception practices for the FSF public. She attempted to produce a summary of the different means that medical planning and centers have put in place to promote access to FSF care in Belgium. Its objective is to share with you concrete tools to implement some of the systems and strategies described during its presentation within your structure.

After studying social political science, Elian Passier completed his career with a master's degree in gender studies at the University of Paris 8. His keen interest in gay sexualities and the politicization of gender identities led him to work as a mission to Vers Paris sans sida, an association deploying the City without AIDS strategy across Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis. Since 2021, he has been piloting and designing projects with and for trans people, gay men and TDS, with a strong focus on LGBT+ mental health.

A cis-gay man living with HIV, Etienne Fouquay has been an activist with the AIDES association for 16 years. He was first a volunteer and then elected before becoming an employee. For nearly 10 years he was in charge of the development of PrEP, the diversification of the rapid screening offer and topics related to the gay/MSM public. It is in this capacity that he coordinated the organization of the RéLOVution conferences intended to mobilize opinion leaders from the gay community on the new issues of prevention. He is now in charge of training AIDES activists.

​Eva Obernauer is a diversity trainer. She holds a master's degree in social management and gender studies. She is an employee of the Schwulenberatung Berlin in the department for LGBTI+ aging and care, as well as in the Quality Seal Lebensort Vielfalt® program. In this role, she advises and supports care facilities in implementing diversity-sensitive care in order to promote the health of LGBTI+ individuals.

Fabien Rivière Da Silva has been coordinator of mobilization sites and activist for the AIDES association since 2016. He is in charge of the E-PREV project of the Center Val de Loire Region, which aims to reach MSM and sex workers that are outside major cities. He is also a user representative on the Territorial Health Council of Indre-et-Loire and a member of the Regional Coordination Committee for the fight against HIV in the Center Val de Loire Region. Patient teacher, he intervenes at the Faculty of Medicine of Tours. Expert patient at the CHR of Orléans, he is elected local in charge of solidarity and autonomy. 

​Gabriel Girard is a sociologist, research fellow at the Institute for Health and Medical Research at SESSTIM (Marseille, France). His work focuses on collective mobilizations in the face of HIV/AIDS and the promotion of health among sexual and gender minorities. He coordinated, with François Berdougo and Elise Marsicano, the special issue of the journal Santé publique on the health of sexual, gender and gender minorities, published in 2023.

Currently Vice President for Regional Relations at the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, Gonçalo Lobo works for the Fast-Track Cities initiative, where he started as Regional Director for Europe (2020-2021). He previously worked for ABRAÇO (2007-2019) a national wide NGO in Portugal focused on HIV, viral hepatitis, and other STIs, of which he was president for seven years. He has over five years of experience as advisor/consultant for parish councils in Lisbon, in the health and social fields (2014-2020). Full member of the Portuguese Psychologists Association, specialized in Clinical Psychology and Advanced Specialization in Sexology, he is also member of the Portuguese Association for the Clinical Study of AIDS.

Guilhem Lautrec is a social worker and anthropologist by training. For two years, he has been director of the non-profit organization Alias, which offers psycho-medical-social support to men who have sexual relations with men and to trans* people affected by prostitution and sex work in Brussels. . Alias works on providing these people with access to their fundamental rights, their social inclusion, and the promotion of their health in the broad sense and their sexual health in particular. Health needs are addressed from a community perspective, risk reduction and low threshold.

​Hanna Ballout completed her specialization in general medicine in 2021. She is general secretary of the SSMG, the Belgian Scientific Society of General Medicine. As a feminist and sexuality-positive GP, she aspires to ensure that everyone can benefit from accessible healthcare regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation. She is committed to providing inclusive healthcare by collaborating with LGBTQIA+ organizations like Genres Pluriels and Ex Aequo. Much of his working time is devoted to training general practitioners on topics such as the management of intimate partner violence and the treatment of sexually transmitted infections.

Hannane Mouhim Escaffre is a trained nurse. Since 2018, she has served as deputy director of the Kiosque Infos Sida et Toxicomanie association and director of Checkpoint Paris. Committed to combating social inequalities in health, she has been participating since 2021 in the experimentation of Sexual Health Centers with a Community Approach (CSSAC) by combining this offer with the pre-existing CeGIDD offer from Checkpoint Paris. She also co-hosts the podcast Sous Condition which highlights actors in the fight against social inequalities in health.

Psychologist at Lama Project and researcher atObservatory of AIDS and Sexualities (ULB), Isabelle Gosselin worked for around fifteen years at the Saint-Pierre University Hospital Center in Brussels, notably at the HIV/STI screening center (Elisa center). Having completed a specialist master's degree in gender studies, she joined the Observatory of AIDS and Sexualities to conduct research on social inequalities in health and access to care for people who are marginalized in terms of gender and sexuality. In 2022, she led a cycle of community reflections which she summarized in a “road map for the creation of the Maison Arc-en-Ciel de la Santé” in Brussels.  Currently, Isabelle questions inclusiveness and intersectionality in mental health care.

Art-activist, Isabelle Sentis has been committed to the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people and to the fight against AIDS for more than 30 years. After being a listener at Sida Info Service and Drugs Info Service, having worked at Aides on therapeutic apartments and the animation of risk reduction places, Isabelle has been an art therapist for 10 years. Her thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of Lille focused on the contributions of art therapy in the context of therapeutic education of people living with HIV. In 2015, she co-founded Fabric'Art-therapy with people living with HIV, caregivers and artists. She shares the stories of the struggles, artistic creations and achievements of people exposed to HIV-AIDS and LGBTQI+ people in places including contemporary art such as the Palais de Tokyo (2023), the Mucem (2022) or the Bozar (2020) or in places of care. She is currently exploring the therapeutic potential of archives.

Jacques Kohl is a psychologist and systemic therapist, psychosocial director of Checkpoint BLN. 

Jordi Suay (he/they) is a social worker specializing in psychosocial counseling with a focus on LGBTIAQ* health.  Throughout the years they went through diverse experiences, from coordinating a sexual health project for migrants in Dortmund, Germany to interning with MozaiQ, a local LGBTIAQ* project in Bucharest, Romania. They are currently employed as an outreach worker at sidekicks.berlin and as a freelance teacher at a nursing school in Berlin.
sidekicks.berlin is an on-site project with the aim of improving the health of queer people by schwulenberatung berlin. The focus is on the prevention of HIV, hepatitis, STIs and addiction. You can find us online at www.sidekicks.berlin 

Jorge Garrido, Executive Director of Apoyo Positivo (www.apoyopositivo.org) and HIV-LGTBIQ activist. Director of Apoyo Positivo's creative HUB, Algo está pasando (something is happening), and executive producer of the INDETECTABLES series (www.indetectables.es). More than 25 years of experience in the care of patients and NGOs as well as in diversity, sexuality and sexual and reproductive rights. Extensive experience in team management and socio-health resources. Specialized in social communication and marketing of NGOs and social projects, with a profile of social entrepreneurship and creativity, such as the search for new lines of financing for the third sector, and its restructuring towards sustainable and more professionalized models , where people and patients , participate meaningfully in decision-making processes, leadership and management of community resources.

Kenny Andreassen is a Psychiatric-mental health nurse with experience from the psychiatric emergency ward and in the national competence center for sexually transmitted diseases. His thesis dealt with suicide prevention within the groups of men who have sex with men. Currently working with the NGO foundation Helseutvalget for the past 3,5 years. As a project manager of Checkpoint in Norway, Kenny focused on developing a better offer to people who never or rarely get tested by changing the model of testing and making it easier, convenient and more anonymous to reach out to new groups. Also meeting all age groups within our target groups in the project "Put words to it", which includes psychologists and experienced nurses and/or peer co-workers.

Lou Soussane is a social worker specializing in mental health, and an intersectional queer feminist activist. Currently, they are in charge of the “Maison Arc-en-ciel de la Santé” (MACS), a health center project for the LGBQTIA+ community, supported by three LGBTQIA+ associations:  Ex Aequo, Plural Genres and As Such. They ensure the reception of beneficiaries as well as the development of the project. They notably created within the MACS an STI screening service for lesbians, bies and co.

HIV activist and founder of the collective Conigli Bianchi – ARTivists against Sierophobia, Luca is also an illustrator and comic artist, working under the name of Er Baghetta, and collaborates with a broad range of LGBTQIA+, transfeminist and HIV/AIDS social movements, NGOs and coalitions in Portugal, Belgium, Italy and the UK. Besides the many awareness raising campaigns for the  1st of December, the recent work he is most proud of and is currently working on is the coordination on the visual, communication and political content of Healthy Peers, an online project and platform on sexual health for the LGBTQIA+ community born from the collaboration between Arcigay, Lila and Conigli Bianchi. He has curated a forthcoming book called “Sierocoinvoltə” edited by Eris Edizioni collecting testimonies from people living with HIV.

Creative activist, health promotion specialist, podcaster and LGBTQ+ cultural archivist, Marc Thompson is currently co-director of The Love Tank, a non-profit organization that works to promote the health and well-being of underserved communities. He is an ambassador for Opening Doors London, which works to raise awareness and improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people aged 50+.

Marie is a 72-year-old trans woman who experienced the pathologization, then the depathologization of transidentity. After a career in the hospital civil service, she currently works as a psychopractitioner in helping relationships and supports people experiencing gender issues or undergoing transition as well as their families. She is a member of the SISA of the Maison Dispersée de Santé (MDS) in Lille. In this capacity, she participated in the development of the Protocol to support the medico-psychosocial pathway offered to people with gender variations (“trans people”). She also participated in the French study supporting the diagnosis of gender incongruence carried out by the CCOMS, a WHO collaborating center in Lille.

Project manager and trainer within the Tels Quel association, Marine de Tillesse is one of the creators of the Go To Gyneco! project which promotes the health of lesbian, bi, pan and co communities so that they can make informed choices. She trains (future) health professionals for care adapted to the lesbian, bi, pan & co. She also supports students in their dissertations on these issues. The project aims to make the lesbian, bi, pan & co both in LGBTQIA+ places and in public spaces.

A doctoral reseracher at Paris Cité University, Mathilde Kiening conducts research in psychoanalysis which focuses on the creation of care spaces with and for minorities with a view to questioning institutional practices and the epistemologies that permeate them. Among other things, in recent years she has worked within Comede (the Committee for the Health of Exiles in Paris) where she initiated a care system for queer people in exile.

A general practitioner from Liège and doctoral student in medical sciences, Maxence Ouafik devotes his research activities as well as part of his clinical work to the health of sexual and gender minorities. With more than ten years of experience in the LGBTQIA+ association, he is keen to promote bridges between the academic and activist worlds and to build participatory research involving the groups concerned as well as grassroots associations. He divides his clinical time between the Maison Médicale de Tilleur and the Estelle Mazy Center, a family planning center in Liège where he initiates and follows gender-affirming hormonal treatments for trans people.

Michael Meulbroek co-founded Projecte dels NOMS-Hispanosida, one of the largest community organizations fighting HIV/AIDS in Spain. In 2006, Barcelona Checkpoint was created, a community center for HIV and STI detection for MSM and the development of community research, the model of which has been followed in many European countries. The last project in 2017 was the establishment of the Barcelona PrEP Point, a community center for information, research, control and adoption of pre-exposure prophylaxis.

An activist in the fight against AIDS for 30 years, Michel Simon was a volunteer then president of the Aides Provence association, then, when the AIDES network merged, national vice-president for 15 years. Also involved in Coalition PLUS, for 2 years he has been an administrator of the association “Les daudantes et les Audacieux”, for the healthy aging of LGBT seniors and seniors living with HIV. 

Miguel Oliveira is a Portuguese nurse who has always been passionate about sexual health and primary health care. In 2019 he started working at ACA - Associação Conversa Amiga, an association that works with people who are homeless and in situations of social isolation. Then, in December 2019, he started working at GAT Checkpoint LX, where he works as a nurse until today. At GAT, he also works as training manager of the Rede de Rastreio Comunitária project and as manager of the transversal service Love Condoms.

Mihai Lixandru is an activist involved in the fight against HIV for over 18 years.  For the past 16 years he has been working for ARAS – Romanian Association Against-AIDS, the largest organization working in HIV in Romania. He developed in 2017 the first Checkpoint, in Bucharest, for men that have sex with men and trans persons and since then he replicated the model in other 3 cities of Romania. He is now the coordinator of the Checkpoint ARAS Network, to date still the only services available specifically to MSM and transgender people in Romania.

​Activist in the fight against HIV for 19 years within the association Ex Aequo of which he was president for 5 years, a mandate during which the association turned towards the overall health of men who love men and who live with HIV. Mike has worked to decriminalize HIV transmission in Belgium and is a true public face of HIV in French-speaking Belgium, never hesitating to speak on camera. He is also a founding member of the LGBTI+ community center of Grands Carmes and worked to make the MACS Brussels Health Checkpoint in Brussels possible. Her alter ego Drag Queen Hélène de Bruxelles also campaigns against the health inequalities suffered by LGBTIA+ people.

Moussa Fofana is 34 years old, of Malian nationality, he has been in France since 2015. In 2016, he became a volunteer with the AIDES association, then an employee in 2021, as a project manager. He is invested in the LGBTQI+ migrant group, a self-support group he created in 2019. He is also involved in chemsex actions (support and animation of speaking groups), as well as in access to health for migrants. , living with HIV. Since 2021, he has been the President of the Association Refuge Migrants-es LGBTQ+ en Paca. 

Myriam Monheim, activist and psychologist from Brussels, has been consulting for nearly 20 years at Plan F, one of the first family planning centers actively open to LGBTI+ people. Invested, from her studies, in the field of sexual health and the fight against HIV and associated discrimination, she has worked with very vulnerable groups: homeless people, street sex workers, people living with HIV, LGBTI+ people of foreign origin. Since the beginning of her personal and professional commitment in the LGBTI+ sector, she has been committed to highlighting the specific needs of racialized people, and lesbian and bisexual women. Currently, she trains and supervises (future) psychomedico-social professionals in the challenges of welcoming and providing inclusive care for minority groups, as well as in the concepts of health promotion.

Committed for more than 20 years in the fight against HIV AIDS, first in hospitals then in associations as a social worker, Nicolas Derche was successively head of department at Checkpoint Paris then at Arcat before taking the management of these 2 member associations of GROUPE SOS in 2016.

Noah Gottlob is a psychologist, co-founder and coordinator of Epicenter ASBL - inclusive health space which aims to develop non-normative and non-oppressive health for diversity and minorities (www.epicentre.brussels). He is also a psychology teacher and trainer (themes related to inclusive health and transidentities in childhood). Noah is also co-founder of the non-profit organization Transkids Belgium.

Project manager by and for transgender communities for Groupe Santé Genève since 2020, Nyx coordinates "NOUX" a series of trans-community projects. They animates "Non-binary trajectories": network of support, experimentation and exchange of transaffirmative experiences, the TRANSFREESHOP, a custom-designed mobile device offering free clothes, I love my sisters, workshop and meetings and personal development for people on the transgender spectrum. Nyx is the artistic director and programmer of the GENEVEGAS drag-queer events. Since 2021, they pursues a residency at the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva (MEG) animates and curates “Once upon a time…” Tales and legends of gendered and disturbed  narrated by drag artists as well as  “Drag is the new folklore” conference performed on drag artistic practices and their influence on culture and urban life. Nyx is also a non-binary inclusive writing teacher.

Activist in Amnesty International since his youth, also in its LGBTI section,  Pablo Sanz Moreno has been a volunteer at Ex-Aequo since 2020. He joined its board of directors a year later and has been its president since June 2023.

Peter Štangelj is a program associate at Legebitra since 2015, a leading LGBTQI+ non-governmental organization in Slovenia. His primary focus lies on HIV/STI prevention and testing in MSM. In addition, he often participates in the promotion and organization of outreach events, such as testing in saunas, at LGBT parties, and in other towns in Slovenia. Through these events, he has been able to reach out to more people who are at risk of HIV/STI infection and offer them free and confidential testing services. As a result, he has contributed to increasing the number of clients who access Legebitra’s testing programs and receive timely diagnosis and treatment.

Qaisar Siddiqui is Vaccine Coordinator at The Love Tank CIC, a not-for-profit organisation working to promote the health and wellbeing of under-served communities. His current focus is on vaccine outreach to individuals and communities least likely to access mainstream sexual health services, through targeted events and campaigns.

Quentin Delval is a philosopher by training, and has worked in French-speaking Switzerland in the field of equality, diversity and inclusion, notably as Secretary General of Vogay, a Vaud association for sexual and gender diversity. In 2021, he notably co-published (with Camille Béziane and Aymeric Dallinge) an article on the conditions of detention of LGBT people in Switzerland. In 2023, he published “How to become less of an idiot in ten steps”, a feminist manual for cishet men, selected as Queer book of the month by 360°, the queer magazine of French-speaking Switzerland. Today coordinator for the steering committee of the Fédération des Maisons Médicales et Collectifs de Santé Francophones, he supports the accessible and inclusive public health project of medical centers.

A specialized educator by training, and after years of volunteering in different sectors of the LGBTQIA+ associative environment, Raphaël has been a field agent since 2020 at the AIDS Prevention Platform, an association for prevention and awareness around sexual health for all audiences with particular attention for people from migrant backgrounds and people living with HIV. Of Congolese origin and activist of the Queer community, he is also the manager of the PPS “MSM and Safe” project, a project to raise awareness and fight against discrimination against the MSM public from migrant backgrounds.

Roberto Tovar is a Mexican activist, community mobilizer, who leads Número de Serie, a project dedicated to promoting sexual and mental health. It focuses on marginalized groups, including people living with HIV, LGBTQ+ people, and asylum seekers, with a focus on Latino people within these subgroups. In 2022, as part of Fast Track Cities London, he created a series of workshops on HIV stigma among Latinx people in the capital. These efforts culminated in a podcast in Spanish and Portuguese titled "Deja Un Mensaje Despues Del Tono", in which participants openly discuss cases of internalized stigma and the victories they have had. In 2021 he made a series of short films called "My Message To You" and in 2023 he collaborated with Catalan artist Eugenio Echeverria for the London debut of "AntimonuMeth", an experiment Groundbreaking VR highlighting crystal meth use among gay and bisexual men who have sex with men.

Rolf de Witt is a graduated pedagogue. Since 1986, Rolf has been working in AIDS-related contexts, mainly in the areas of public relations and prevention. Since 2003, Rolf has been working in Berlin for an outreach project focusing on the prevention of HIV, hepatitis, STIs and addiction. In 2006, Rolf took over the coordination of the project as team leader for sidekicks.berlin (formerly known as man*check).

Sandro Mattioli is an HIV+ activist. Since 2000, he has been fighting for the rights of LGBTQ+ people and for the rights of HIV positive people. He chairs Plus, an association of LGBTQ+  people living with HIV and manages the BLQ Checkpoint in Bologna since 2015 and the PrEP Point in Bologna a since 2018. He is a member of the Technical Health Committee of the Ministry of Health, and member of the Regional AIDS Commission.

Sherine Tolu Balogun, works as the community Manager at the UK's first LGBT+ Affirming housing association located in London's Vibrant Vauxhall. "Celebrating diversity amongst older people I meet at Bankhouse, is so fulfilling and exciting". In past working roles she's met many people from different walks of life and assisted them with the challenges that they may be facing. This trait is something that is echoed in her professional and personal life which she champions with her mini but mighty team that work to build the community at Bankhouse.

Holder of a nursing diploma and a master's degree in public health, Simon Englebert worked at Sida Sol Liège (in Belgium), a low-threshold, community-based mixed center for 7 years as head of the health project, prevention for MSM and for 3 years as director. This center is now called Center S and carries out prevention and screening among key populations.

​Committed for several years to trans community associations and the fight against HIV, Simon Jutant is currently co-director of the Acceptess-T association, in Paris. He is co-author of a report submitted in 2022 to the Ministry of Health on the health pathways of trans people, involving for the first time trans community stakeholders in the reflection for the development of recommendations concerning transition pathways .

Since 1999, Stéphane Calmon has been a volunteer for the AIDES association in France. Between 2001 and 2018, he held various elective positions within the association as regional president of AIDES in Ile de France and in the Hauts de France and Normandy regions as well as administrator and national vice-president. During these 24 years of commitment, he represented AIDES, among others, as president of the Le 190 health center in Paris, spokesperson for interLGBT and since 2016, as a user representative within the institute. medical specialist specializing in chemsex/addictions Montevideo in the Paris region and representative of AIDES on the board of directors of Ex Aequo. Stéphane is 50 years old and defines himself as gay living with HIV and occasional user of psychoactive products.

​First an outreach worker for the Swiss Aids Federation Against AIDS then a project manager for ILGA World, Stephen supported the arrival of LGBTI rights at the UN Human Rights Council from 2003 to 2013. He co-created and led initiatives such as the report on State-Sponsored Homophobia and ILGA's Global Gay and Lesbian Rights Map. The network of communicators he set up around the globe for the LGBTI world federation formed the foundation of the continental federations ILGA-Asia, Pan Africa ILGA and ILGA-LAC. Since 2017, he has been coordinator of the Belgian association Ex Aequo founded in 1994 in the context of the fight against HIV. With his fellow activists, he works on his move towards health promotion and the creation of the MACS Brussels Health Checkpoint and the LGBTI Community Center of Brussels. 

Thibaut Jedrzejewski is a general practitioner at 190, the sexual health center in Paris. He is a specialist in MSM health and Chemsex.

Responsible for screening actions, Valentin Blaison supported Ex Aequo and its volunteers in the integration of a medical offer which foreshadows what will ultimately be the sexual health offer of the Maison Arc-en-Ciel de la Santé in Brussels . To do this, he has set up peer-helper/doctor pair consultations where the counseling interview is led by the volunteer. Valentin runs the training module on the health needs of MSM for health professionals in collaboration with the associations Tels Quel, O Yes (FSF Go to Gynéco project) and Genres Pluriels (trans and intersex audiences). He is a referent for the TTBM (Very Very Good Doctor) network. In 2022, its volunteers redirected nearly 733 users towards 197 health professionals who had themselves been indicated by other users for their gay-friendly welcome.

Victor Abraham Lacô is a protean queer architect who bases his research around questions of eroticism, homoromanticism and the relationship to space, constantly theorizing its relationships to love and sexualities. Holding a master's degree in gender studies at UCL, he divides his time between his involvement in LGBTQIA+ associations, the creation of queer board games, and artistic residencies combining pornography, sociology, activism and poetry. His dissertation, “When men go out to fuck, from the ritualization of HsH flirting behaviors to dematerialized hunting grounds in the era of Covid-19” received the LGBTQIA+ François Delor prize in 2021. Recently, he is also a consultant on gender issues and LGBTQIA+ themes for a Gender Mainstreaming project on the scale of the Brussels urban plan. His new game, Culedo: the game of all your fantasies, deals with community health for queer people, and is a fun and preventative tool for those over 16.

Director of the Education and Research area of the December 26th Foundation (fundacion26d.org) dedicated to the care of LGTBI+ elderly people, Victor Mora Gaspar has taught for CESIDA the course "Elderly people, sexual health and HIV". He is an international PhD in Cultural Studies, activist and writer. His books include " On the margins of nature. The persecution of homosexuality during Franco's regime" (Random House, 2016, Sagasta National Essay Award), and " Who is afraid of queer?" (Continta, 2021, with two editions in Spanish and one in Italian by Odoya Edizioni, 2022). 

Gay cis boy living with HIV, activist in associations fighting against HIV/AIDS for 17 years, Vincent Leclercq is now director of Coalition PLUS, an international network of more than a hundred community associations fighting against HIV/AIDS in 53 countries acting for health, human rights and research with and for HIV key populations.

Committed for more than 10 years to the fight against HIV/AIDS, Virginie Fossé is currently responsible for communications for the Arcat and Checkpoint Paris associations. In parallel with this activity, she occasionally works as an independent graphic designer for associations and collectives campaigning for human rights.

Dr Will Nutland is a health and social justice activist, researcher, and health promoter. He's an honorary assistant professor at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where he teaches in health promotion, and applied communicable disease control. He's the co-founder of PrEPster, and its parent non-profit company The Love Tank CIC. In 2022, Will’s activism, research and health promotion turned to the global monkeypox outbreak. He’s recently been an advisor to ECDC, WHO and UKHSA. He has been active in the global queer health movement for over 25 years.

An associative activist in the fight against HIV for nearly 30 years, Yan Fournet joined AIDES in 2005. For several years, he led and supervised the activity of a multidisciplinary team in Paris and then in the regions, in charge of actions to fight against HIV and hepatitis, particularly among LGBTI+ people. In 2015 he took over as head of the Training sector of AIDES and actively participated in the development of this new activity of the association in mainland France, the Caribbean and internationally. He develops new training with his 2 fellow trainers for whom he is responsible and leads numerous training sessions on topics as varied as chemsex, counselling, risk reduction or community health.