About this Event
Pride Positivo is the march and campaign that Cesida, the Spanish coordinating body for HIV and AIDS organisations, holds in Madrid for people living with HIV. This is the fifth edition, and it runs under the slogan "Ni culpa, ni silencio", no guilt and no silence.
The march sets off from Paseo del Prado, at the museum end of the city centre and a short walk from Atocha. It is a street demonstration rather than a party. The placards are about stigma, about how few people test, and about the way serophobia still shapes healthcare and ordinary life for people who have lived with a manageable condition for decades.
The march closes a wider programme that fills the first half of October. There is a street art project painting walls across ten provinces, an awards evening, a conference on stigma and a run of training sessions, and all of it is free.
Anyone can walk it. You do not need a ticket, a group or a reason of your own.
