IAS 2025, the 13th IAS Conference on HIV Science, will offer a range of exciting and inspiring community activities! It's more important than ever to put communities at the front of the HIV response. Let’s come together to share experiences and advocate for equitable access to health and rights. Here’s what you can look forward to:
Community Forum
The IAS 2025 Community Forum, ”Bridging the gaps: Community resilience”, will bring together community members, activists, programme implementers and policy makers to examine how long-standing shortfalls in HIV funding and rights have intensified and how communities are forging ahead with innovation and resilience.
Positive Lounge
The Positive Lounge is a dedicated space for delegates from key populations and people living with and affected by HIV to recharge, refresh, relax and reconnect in a nurturing environment.
Educational tours
Want to see how community-based organizations lead an effective local HIV response? How they reach key populations and advocate for human rights? Join an IAS 2025 educational tour in Kigali!
Invited-speaker community sessions
In case you missed it, the online programme for IAS 2025 is live. It includes over 100 sessions and 1,400 posters, as well as an exhibition hall featuring organizations leading HIV research.
Participate in timely community sessions, such as “Protecting progress in the HIV response amid the rise of the anti-rights movement”, featuring presentations on the erosion of rights and the need for cross-sector collaboration to build a more resilient HIV response.
Join us for a community symposium, “From lived expertise to action”, showcasing the work of HIV advocates promoting policies that remove or reduce discrimination, inequalities, criminalization and human rights violations.
Join us
IAS 2025, the 13th IAS Conference on HIV Science, returns the conference to the African continent, which is at the heart of the HIV response. IAS 2025 will highlight the latest science, innovation and frontline efforts in addressing HIV in Africa and across the globe.
The conference will present a powerful opportunity to come together to inform, engage and inspire urgent global action to chart a new and equitable path forward.
Don't miss out. Be a part and help shape the future of the HIV response. Join thousands of scientists, policy makers and activists in Kigali, Rwanda and virtually, from 13 to 17 July!