ABSTRACT
Networking can be highly effective in spreading information, in promoting the exchange of experience and skills between AIDS service organizations (ASOs), and in advocating for the rights of individuals and affected communities, care and support, and the right to live free from discrimination. Since the problems confronted in individual countries are rarely unique or completely new, each can benefit from access to a variety of solutions and programmes: European collaboration can increase the effectiveness of prevention efforts among many different communities. Community-based organizations (CBOs) often serve as the only voice for marginalized groups which have suffered discrimination; this is valid for gay men, commercial sex workers, injecting drug users and for migrants and ethnic minorities, a group that suffers from double or even triple discrimination.
