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PRESS Release
7 July 2025
Press programme for IAS 2025, the 13th IAS Conference on HIV Science
7 July 2025 (Geneva, Switzerland) – The press conference programme for IAS 2025, the 13th IAS Conference on HIV Science, is detailed below and available online. The IAS Conference on HIV Science is the world’s most influential meeting on HIV research and its applications.
IAS 2025 will be a hybrid conference, taking place in Kigali, Rwanda, and virtually from 13 to 17 July 2025. The press programme will include three press conferences: one spotlighting key science featured at the conference; one launching the annual UNAIDS Global AIDS Update; and an opening press conference on the future of the global HIV response.
All press conferences will be accessible virtually.
Press releases will be issued at the start of each press conference. Please note that each press conference has a unique registration link that you can find below or in the online press programme.
All media are required to register for the conference. For more information, please visit the media registration tab on the IAS 2025 website.
Official IAS 2025 scientific highlights:
Tuesday, 8 July
16:00 – 17:00 CAT
Format: Virtual
Registration: Register and join here
Speakers:
- Dr Beatriz Grinsztejn, IAS President and IAS 2025 International Co-Chair
- Dr Jack Stone, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, Modelling the impact of cuts in PEPFAR funding for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among key populations in sub-Saharan Africa
- Dr Dorlim Moiana Uetela, Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique, The impact of the U.S. funding interruption on HIV services and the HIV epidemic in Mozambique
- Khensani Chauke, Gauteng Provincial Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa, Termination of the USAID APACE award in Johannesburg, South Africa: Impact on the number of people living with HIV tested, diagnosed and initiated on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) (January-March 2023-2025)
- Meg Stevenson, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, United States, Impact of U.S. funding suspensions on community HIV response in the Latin America and Caribbean region
- Zackie Achmat, Founder of the Treatment Action Campaign and member of the Global HIV Treatment Coalition.
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Launch of 2025 UNAIDS Global AIDS Update: AIDS, crisis and the power to transform
Organized by UNAIDS in partnership with the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC)
Thursday, 10 July
11:30 – 12:30 CAT
Format: Hybrid
Location: Bertha Gxowa Hospital, Angus St, Germiston, Johannesburg, South Africa
Registration: The event will be livestreamed on Zoom
Meeting ID: 940 3779 4528
Passcode: 222800
Speakers:
- Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health of South Africa
- Prof Helen Rees, Executive Director, Wits RHI (Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute)
- The Reverend Mbulelo Dyasi, Executive Director of SANARELA (South African Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV & AIDS)
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Breakthroughs amid crisis: The future of HIV innovation
Monday, 14 July
15:30 – 16:30 CAT
Format: Hybrid
Location: Room AD12
Registration: Register and join here
Speakers:
- Dr Beatriz Grinsztejn, IAS President and IAS 2025 International Co-Chair
- Dr Meg Doherty, Director, Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes and incoming Director of Science, Research, Evidence and Quality for Health at the World Health Organization (WHO)
- Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Esteban Burrone, Policy, Strategy and Market Access Director at the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), Announcement of a new development in one of MPP HIV licenses
- Dr Rebeca Plank, Merck & Co., Inc., Safety and pharmacokinetics of MK-8527 oral once-monthly: a phase 2 study in adults at low risk of HIV-1 exposure
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Please note that speakers are subject to change. To learn more about the IAS 2025 press programme and to sign up for the press conferences, please visit the media page.
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About the IAS Conference on HIV Science
The IAS Conference on HIV Science is the world’s most influential meeting on HIV research and its applications. This biennial conference presents the critical advances in basic, clinical and operational HIV research that move science into policy and practice. Through its open and inclusive programme, the meeting sets the gold standard of HIV science, featuring highly diverse and cutting-edge research. IAS 2025, the 13th IAS Conference on HIV Science, will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, from 14 to 17 July 2025. Pre-meetings will be held on 13 July. For more information, please visit www.iasociety.org/conferences/ias2025.
About the International AIDS Society
IAS – the International AIDS Society – convenes, educates and advocates for a world in which HIV no longer presents a threat to public health and individual well-being. After the emergence of HIV and AIDS, concerned scientists created the IAS to bring together experts from across the world and disciplines to promote a concerted HIV response. Today, the IAS and its members unite scientists, policy makers and activists to galvanize the scientific response, build global solidarity and enhance human dignity for all those living with and affected by HIV. The IAS also hosts the world’s most prestigious HIV conferences: the International AIDS Conference, the IAS Conference on HIV Science and the HIV Research for Prevention Conference.
Media contacts
IAS media
media@iasociety.org
Leila Darabi
leila.darabi@mboothhealth.com
+1 929 214 2306
Michael Kessler
michael.kessler@intoon-media.com
+34 655 792 699
Source: https://www.iasociety.org/conferences/ias2025/media/press-programme
Media contact
media@iasociety.org
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