Press conference programme

Official Scientific Highlights Press Conference

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16:00 – 17:00 CEST
Format: Virtual
Speakers:

• Chair Sharon Lewin, IAS President (Australia) 
• Christian Gaebler, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany)
  The next Berlin patient: sustained HIV remission surpassing five years without antiretroviral therapy after heterozygous CCR5 WT/Δ32 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
• Erik Lamontagne, UNAIDS (South Africa)
  The cost of inaction of failing to meet global targets to end the AIDS epidemic: looking beyond 2030
• Seitaro Abe, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (Japan)
  Doxycycline PrEP Prevents STIs Without Affecting Vaginal Bacterial Flora in Female Sex Workers
• Troy Grennan, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and University of British Columbia (Canada)
  A pilot, randomized controlled trial of doxycycline pre-exposure prophylaxis versus placebo for prevention of bacterial sexually transmitted infections in men who have sex with men living with HIV​
• Marjie Groot Bruinderink, GGD Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  STI testing rates among PrEP users randomized to 3-monthly (standard of care) or 6-monthly monitoring within the EZI-PrEP trial, the Netherlands: preliminary results
• Jane Kabami, Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (Uganda)
  Knowledge, awareness, feasibility, and acceptability of long-acting Cabotegravir for HIV prevention: results from the SEARCH Dynamic Choice HIV prevention trial

Launch of UNAIDS Global AIDS Update – The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

10:00–11:00 CEST - followed by a special focus on Eastern Europe and Central Asia 11:05 – 12:00
Format: In person & virtual
Location: International Press Club of Munich, Marienplatz 22/IV (Entrance Rindermarkt), 80331 Munich, Germany
Speakers: 

• Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Sabine Dittmar, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Health, Germany
• Sharon Lewin, President, International AIDS Society
• Freidel Dausab, Namibian activist
• Other speakers to be confirmed 

Registration:

Both events will be livestreamed on Zoom

Meeting ID: 831 3456 8680
Passcode: 004056

To attend in person please email bartonknotts@unaids.org

AIDS 2024 Official Opening Press Conference

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15:30 – 16:30 CEST
Format: In person & virtual
Room: Press conference room
Speakers:

• Sharon Lewin, IAS President (Australia) 
• Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS (Switzerland)
• Chris Collins, Friends of the Global Fight (USA)
• Andriy Klepikov, AIDS 2024 Co-Chair, Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine)
• John N. Nkengasong, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative For Health Diplomacy (USA)
• Jay Malucha, Fem Alliance (Uganda)

Registration: Register and join here

There are two avenues to present your news at AIDS 2024:

• Submit news for consideration to be included in the official AIDS 2024 press programme: Perhaps you and/or your organization attending AIDS 2024 have big news or announcements (for example, new data showcasing real-world impact and new funding commitments) that you think will interest the media. If so, we would love to hear from you – your news may be a fit for one of our official press conferences! Also, if you submitted an abstract and it has been accepted, you may be asked to present it at one of the official AIDS 2024 press conferences. Please submit news to be considered to media@iasociety.org.
• Submit a recording of your own press conference to be included in the virtual media centre: If you are attending the conference and plan to host your own media event on a topic related to the conference, please share the recording with us for inclusion in the AIDS 2024 virtual media centre made available to all registered media.