On Thursday last week, the HIVR4P conference ended in Madrid. As delegates returned to virtually every corner of the globe, events unfolded that are, by, now, all too familiar: a slew of pipe bombs and a massacre at synagogue in America; an extremist victory in Brazil’s election; continued consternation over the Ugandan president’s public remarks, made earlier in the week, that voluntary medical male circumcision does not reduce HIV risk. Disparate events, but linked nevertheless. Violence exists on a continuum. Slaughter is a shocking extreme; but it is connected to speech, and these days the distance between the two feels far too small. And so, as the conference recedes and real lives demand attention, this final update explores the question: how do we carry on?

“We cannot afford to be divided, whether we are in a privileged category of race, gender, nationality or sexual identity, or one that is under attack. ”

Boldly
Inclusively
Honestly
Imaginatively
With Clarity