The 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020: Virtual)

The 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020: Virtual) is organized by the International AIDS Society (IAS). This Online CME Conference is held from Jul 06 - 10, 2020.

The International AIDS Conference is the premier global platform to develop HIV acknowledgment. As the world’s largest convention on HIV and AIDS, it sits uniquely at the junction of science, advocacy, and human rights, uniting together scientists, policymakers, healthcare professionals, people living with HIV, funders, media, and community. Since its start in 1985, the conference has worked as an opportunity to strengthen policies and arrangements that assure an evidence-based response to HIV and related epidemics.

AIDS 2020 conference objectives:
•  Excite progress in the acknowledgment by promoting HIV science, research, and policy: To present the most advanced in HIV science, research and policies by the world’s preeminent experts by examining successes and challenges in meeting the 90-90-90 goals; to consolidate the lived experience and knowledge of people living with HIV to transmute HIV knowledge into concrete results for individuals; and to showcase how HIV informs and intersects with other co-infections, co-morbidities and aging, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence and social justice
•  Flash a spotlight on the essentials of populations left behind: To promote rights-based, evidence-informed and equitably supported programming that is tailored to the necessities of fundamental populations and other vulnerable communities, along with the people living with HIV, displaced populations, men who have sex with men, women, and girls, migrants, people in prisons and other closed settings, people who use drugs, sex workers, indigenous populations, transgender people, children, and youth, migrants and refugees
•  Restore and increase political commitment and resolve: To strengthen commitment from governments, donors, the private sector and civil society for an inclusive, sustainable and adequately financed HIV response that promotes universal health coverage and access, scales up comprehensive prevention approaches, guarantees universal antiretroviral therapy coverage, reforms prohibitive and counterproductive drug policies, and ceases restrictive travel bans – all to highlight the unfortunate reality that the epidemic is far from over
•  Develop and maintain the next generation: To magnify the voices of young people and solidify the next generation of leaders, clinicians, researchers, and advocates by providing an innovative and inclusive platform for young people and emerging leaders to continue to meaningfully lead discussions on science, research, policy, and program implementation
•  Establish and underscore the commitment to an impartial HIV response: To investigate the impact of stigma, social injustice and social determinants of health, including racial, social, economic and gender inequalities, as well as food insecurity and unstable housing, on the HIV epidemic; and to advocate for improved access to healthcare services and social protection by analyzing different local epidemics, particularly within the United States and Latin America.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.