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What a difference a week makes! It’s been filled with game-changing scientific breakthroughs and community-led innovations, passionate activism that called out the big issues around access to the latest advances, and the promise of renewed political commitment to sustaining an effective response to HIV.
All of these elements came together at AIDS 2024 with our theme, Put people first!
From the IAS, we say thank you, wholeheartedly, to every single one of the more than 11,000 people who made AIDS 2024 a success. A total of 864 scholarship recipients joined us from 101 countries. They will take the knowledge and insights they have gained back to their countries, organizations and communities.
We’ve been inspired and informed by more than 40 oral abstract sessions, 50 invited-speaker sessions, 20 workshops, 17 pre-conferences, 30 symposia sessions, 100 satellite sessions and 2,200 posters. There was much celebration, too: both the Global Village and the Journal of the International AIDS Society marked their 20th anniversaries.
Science has given us new and powerful ways to prevent transmission of HIV. Now we must ensure that everyone can access the latest medical advances, especially in the regions where HIV is most prevalent. We still require political will and sustained advocacy if we are to overcome obstacles like stigma, criminalization and the funding gap.
“I hope you leave feeling invigorated and inspired, but perhaps also a little anxious about the road ahead,” Beatriz Grinsztejn told delegates as she assumed the IAS Presidency from Sharon Lewin at the closing session of AIDS 2024. Indeed, we have work to do.
Auf Wiedersehen! We look forward to seeing you again at IAS 2025, the 13th IAS Conference on HIV Science, in Kigali, Rwanda. Until we meet again.
