Daily Digest: Sunday, 13 July

Coming up today

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Day 1 is devoted to pre-conferences, open to all registered delegates. 

Prevention is a strong theme of IAS 2025 pre-conferences:

• “Success stories and future directions in African HIV vaccine research” celebrates Africa’s leadership in HIV vaccine research, showcasing successes and exploring opportunities.
• “Expanding PrEP Access: The Role of HIVST in Uptake and Scale-Up” explores the latest evidence, strategies and innovations in the integration of HIV self-testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery.
• The “11th Symposium on children and adolescents with perinatal HIV exposure” builds on a decade of meetings focused on the health and well-being of infants, children and adolescents born HIV free to women living with HIV.

Pre-conferences explore rethinking and rebuilding the HIV response in the face of funding cuts: 

• “Building Resilience: Strengthening National Leadership, Integration, and Sustainable HIV Programs in an Era of Funding Transition” unpacks impactful national leadership, scaling up new prevention modalities, and maintaining and expanding services for key and vulnerable populations.
• “Bridging the gaps: Community resilience”, the IAS 2025 Community Forum, looks at how the political landscape is widening funding gaps and threatening access to lifesaving services.
• “Women Know What Works - Celebrating the successes of women living with HIV in the global response” brings together voices of women living with HIV from around the world to examine advances in HIV prevention, treatment and care for women living with HIV.

The search for an HIV cure continues, and this pre-conference brings us some of the latest developments:

• “Co-infections, viral and host diversity: Impact on HIV cure” explores considerations of HIV sub-types, age, biological sex and common co-morbidities, among others, in HIV cure research. It addresses the needs and priorities of HIV cure research in Africa.
   

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
 

Language matters

At the IAS, we actively use language that puts people first – at our conferences and in our programmatic work. This is because words have power: they bestow or remove dignity, build or break stigma, and divide or unite the HIV response. Through the words we choose to use at the IAS, we acknowledge that a person is so much more than a condition; we promote inclusivity, dialogue and equality. Join us!
 

Code of conduct

The IAS is dedicated to fostering a welcoming environment and encouraging debate and dialogue among all conference participants. The IAS upholds freedom of expression as a fundamental principle in our efforts to end HIV as a threat to public health and individual well-being and promote inclusive participation in our conferences. Conference delegates are responsible for complying with the IAS code of conduct and the laws and regulations of the host country.

Read our code of conduct
 

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