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Practical Advocacy & Community Toolbox
Overview
The final session, led by Christos Krasidis, brought the series to a powerful close with a focus on advocacy and community empowerment. Through case studies from Cyprus including the successful challenge to a migrant student’s deportation and the long campaign for national PrEP access, participants saw how lived experiences can be transformed into systemic change.
Christos introduced the Practical Advocacy & Community Toolbox, equipping participants with strategies such as stakeholder mapping, evidence harvesting, coalition building, and narrative framing to strengthen campaigns and dismantle discrimination. Interactive exchanges with participants from France, Ireland, Portugal and Italy highlighted both shared challenges and innovative models of migrant access to HIV prevention.
The session left participants inspired and prepared with practical tools to drive advocacy in their own contexts, affirming the collective impact of the four‑week series and the importance of networks like My Health in sustaining momentum.
Speaker Bio
Christos Krasidis is a human-rights activist, professional trainer and international consultant for sexual health, combination prevention and human rights. He is currently the Chairperson of the AIDS Solidarity Movement in Cyprus, leading the organisation’s advocacy activities. He has served as the AIDS Action Europe Steering Committee chairperson (2022-2023) and Strategic Communications Consultant (2024). He has also been an active member of the COBATEST Network Steering Committee (2018-2024), as well as a member and trainer of the European AIDS Treatment Group (2018-onwards).
As a Community Expert, he participates in the ECDC EU/EEA Sexually Transmitted Infections Network Coordination Committee (STI NCC) and WHO Europe’s informal workgroup on MPOX. He is a Community Health Worker (2016-onwards) at the ‘Cy Checkpoint’ and a peer-counsellor at the ‘Cyprus PrEP Point’. His experience in working with Gay, Bisexual, Queer and other Men who have Sex with Men (GBQMSM), sex workers, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, people who use/inject drugs in the context of chemsex, has been continuously utilised in online and physical training locally and internationally for more than a decade.