Daily Digest: Monday, 14 July

Coming up today

Convert to your time zone through the IAS 2025 programme.

09:30-16:30 CAT

Satellite sessions take place today. Check out the online programme to view the full line-up. They focus on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, the use of AI to support the HIV response in Africa, differentiated service delivery and more. 

One among the many to consider is ViiV Healthcare’s “Ending the HIV epidemic through people, partnership, innovation” at 15:00 CAT.
 

Opening session

Please join us for the IAS 2025 opening session at 17:00 CAT, featuring an address by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from WHO on turning challenges into opportunities in our current funding and political context. IAS 2025 Co-Chairs Beatriz Grinsztejn and Jeanine Condo welcome delegates to IAS 2015, and Rwanda’s Minister of Health, Sabin Nsanzimana, extends a welcome to the country. 

WACI Health’s Executive Director, Rosemary Mburu, presents on sustaining community action in the current environment. The Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and former IAS President, Linda-Gail Bekker, concludes with a keynote speech, “We cannot afford not to: Sustaining a strong African HIV response despite funding cuts”.
 

The IAS 2025 exhibition

The exhibition is open from 12:30 to 17:00 CAT. Explore cutting-edge products and services and chat with representatives of key organizations in the HIV response.
 

AI translation tool

To ensure that IAS 2025 is as inclusive and accessible as possible, we are offering interpretation in over 60 languages so you can fully engage with key conference sessions – virtually and in person – without barriers. 

To enrich your conference experience, bring your laptop for taking notes and your headphones if you plan to access simultaneous interpretation during sessions.

Learn more
 

JIAS

The Journal of the International AIDS Society supplement, “PEP in Africa: prospects, opportunities and challenges”, has just been launched! This collection of articles adds to our understanding of the current status of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) uptake in Africa and provides insight into how PEP could be an additional effective tool to end the HIV pandemic as a public health threat. 

Read it for free
 

Meet the change makers

Linah Mwango is a public healthcare professional working for Ciheb Zambia as a technical director. She is a fellow of the 2024 Person-Centred Care Advocacy Academy, and she is at IAS 2025 with the IAS Person-Centred Care Programme. She speaks about the implementation of long-acting cabotegravir for HIV prevention among adolescent girls and young women in Zambia at the satellite, “The future of person-centred HIV prevention: Latest evidence from the African continent”, at 11:30 CAT today.
 

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