From July 22 to July 26, Munich plays host to AIDS 2024, the 25th International AIDS Conference, also accessible virtually to participants across the globe. The conference will see an estimated 15,000 participants living with, affected by and working on HIV “share knowledge, best practices and lessons learnt from the HIV response over the past 40 years, as well as from the responses to COVID-19, mpox and other public health threats.”
Featured speakers include the likes of former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 and First Lady of the United States Jill Biden. Renowned doctors, scientists, activists, researchers and health journalists will also form part of the conference.
The core principle of the Conference is to champion an evidence-based approach to HIV that puts people first.
From The New York Times’ headlines about a “mysterious fever” to an understanding of the human…