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In the 40 years since AIDS was first reported, nearly 35 million people have died from AIDS-related causes.

Follow the science. That’s what we’ve come to know in four decades of responding to HIV, and that’s the message the IAS delivered at the fifth United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV and AIDS in June 2012.

For people who use drugs, COVID-19 has added to an already difficult situation marked by widespread violations of human rights, criminalization and disproportionate use of force by law enforcement. Violence, stigma and discrimination, high prevalence of HIV and viral hepatitis and high rates of overdose have compounded the challenges for a group of already marginalized people. IAS President Adeeba Kamarulzaman on the solutions that have been known to us for many years.

As HIVR4P // Virtual comes to an end, here is a look at some of the highlights which emerged from the global scientific conference focused exclusively on HIV prevention research.

World AIDS Day this year falls at the close of an unprecedented year for the planet. The spread of COVID-19 has affected communities across the world – disrupting and threatening lives and livelihoods.

The HIV community is unique and inspires me every day. I saw the resilience of the HIV community early on in my career when I was working at the United Nations University in Tokyo. I was responsible for capacity-building programmes, which brought together people from all over the world for various trainings.

It is with a profoundly heavy heart that IAS – the International AIDS Society – today mourns the passing of Timothy Ray Brown, the first person to be cured of HIV.