The Panos Global AIDS Programme (GAP) is a network of eight autonomous Panos Institutes
in Asia, the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and Eastern, Southern and Western Africa,
which work together within a shared strategic framework around the core theme of enhancing
participation, accountability and ownership within the response to HIV and AIDS.
GAP’s mission is to enable developing countries to shape a global response to the HIV/AIDS
pandemic by stimulating informed public and policy debate and amplifying marginalised voices
- particularly those affected by HIV/AIDS - through media.
GAP has supported oral testimonies of all vulnerable groups to HIV and AIDS including sex
workers in order to have participatory, inclusive and transparent decision making on HIV/
AIDS at the national, regional and international level.