Accelerate basic science and clinical innovation
for the development and application of person-centred, precision medicine for HIV, co-infections and co-morbidities and progress towards a vaccine and cure.
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 research that moves science into policy and practice. Through its open and inclusive programme development, the meeting sets the gold standard of HIV research featuring highly diverse and cutting-edge studies.
The Covid-19 pandemic necessitates that the conference take place virtually.
The unifying story of our original host city, Berlin, will infuse and inform IAS2021, particularly its history of overcoming barriers and connecting people in the HIV response and beyond.
Additionally, local partners will host select in-person hubs in the original host city of Berlin and elsewhere. These hubs will enable local scientific and other stakeholder communities to gather in accordance with international best pandemic prevention practices and local health authorities’ guidelines.
Whether or not you are able to attend an in-person event, all official IAS 2021 sessions and networking opportunities will be accessible virtually, via our cutting-edge online conferencing platform. More information on the virtual platform will follow in early 2021.
Conference Objectives
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Advance interdisciplinary collaboration
in clinical research to improve integrated and holistic care across all life stages for HIV, co-infections and co-morbidities, including non-communicable diseases.
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Learn from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
to further explore ways in which HIV science interlinks with and contributes to innovations in response to emerging pandemics and established infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and viral hepatitis.
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Strengthen core components of the implementation science agenda across
the HIV prevention-to-care cascade, including approaches for meaningful community engagement and resourcing health systems.
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Highlight human rights research
to reduce the personal, social and structural barriers to health and other services for people living with HIV, key populations and other vulnerable communities. non-communicable diseases.