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AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference

AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference

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AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and virtually on 26-31 July 2026, comes at a crucial time for the HIV response.

In the face of an unprecedented funding crisis and major cutbacks to HIV programmes, the world’s largest conference on HIV and AIDS will unite people living with HIV, researchers, policy makers, healthcare professionals, funders, media and communities.

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Featured speakers

Lishomwa (Lish) Ndhlovu

Lishomwa (Lish) Ndhlovu

Weill Cornell Medicine, United States

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Lishomwa (Lish) Ndhlovu

Weill Cornell Medicine, United States 

Lish Ndhlovu is the Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. He researches HIV and ageing and pioneering strategies to prevent, slow or eliminate complications associated with HIV. Combining immunology, virology and epigenetic methods, he explores molecular mechanisms of HIV pathogenesis and persistence. He co-leads the Martin Delaney Collaboratories for HIV Cure Research, specifically, the HOPE Collabatory, and received an NIH MERIT award for his research on stem cell transplantation leading to HIV cure. He leads the NIDA-funded Weill Cornell-SCORCH consortium, documenting single-cell substance use disorder responses in the brain in the setting of HIV. He is a member of the NIAID Office of AIDS Research Advisory Committee and Co-Editor in Chief of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2021 and a member of the American Association of Physicians in 2025.

Paula Mendes Luz

Paula Mendes Luz

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brazil

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Paula Mendes Luz

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brazil

Paula Mendes Luz is a researcher and Professor at Fiocruz’s Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas and Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, advising Master’s and PhD students. She holds an MD from Fluminense Federal University (2002) and a PhD in epidemiology from Yale University (2009), funded by a Fulbright and CAPES Joint Scholarship. She has been awarded multiple Research Productivity Awards by the Brazilian National Research Council and the State of Rio de Janeiro Research Support Foundation. Her research interests include epidemiology, mathematical and statistical modelling of disease dynamics, health technology assessment and decision analysis. Her recent work integrates epidemiological and modelling approaches to analyse the influence of psychological, interpersonal and social determinants of health on HIV prevention, treatment and care continuum outcomes.

Raphael Landovitz

Raphael Landovitz

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States

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Raphael Landovitz

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States

Raphael J Landovitz is a Professor of Medicine and the Mary D. Fisher Endowed Chair in HIV Care, Treatment, and Prevention at the David Geffen School of Medicine. He is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and serves as Director of both the UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research & Education and the UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services. Raphael is also a principal investigator of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and the UCLA AIDS Prevention and Treatment Clinical Trials Unit. His research focuses on optimizing antiretroviral therapies for HIV treatment and prevention, with current efforts centred on the development and implementation of long-acting PrEP agents and continued evaluation of investigational long-acting and extended-release products and delivery systems for HIV and STI prevention.

Wame Jallow

Wame Jallow

MTV Staying Alive Foundation, Botswana

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Wame Jallow

MTV Staying Alive Foundation, Botswana

Wame Jallow is a global advocate for health, rights and environmental justice, with over 25 years of experience in driving transformative change across diverse communities. She has been a fierce champion for the rights of women and girls, working to ensure equitable access to quality health services and essential medicines for all. She has played a pivotal role in strengthening community and health systems, bringing expertise in community-led monitoring and research, costing and policy analysis, advocacy, social behaviour change and impact, and community mobilization. Wame is the Executive Director of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, which leads innovative entertainment-education initiatives that harness the power of storytelling and popular culture to challenge stigma, shift social norms and inspire collective action globally. Its flagship series, MTV Shuga, is a cultural touchstone and movement tackling critical issues that shape the lives and futures of young people.

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Language matters

At the IAS, we actively use language that puts people first. This is because words have power: they bestow or remove dignity, build or break stigma, and divide or unite the HIV response. Through the words we choose to use at the IAS, we acknowledge that a person is so much more than a condition; we promote inclusivity, dialogue and equality.

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Stay vigilant against scams! Every year, we are alerted to cases of phishing emails supposedly from conference organizing teams. All official communications from IAS – the International AIDS Society – regarding AIDS 2026 will come from an AIDS 2026 email address, such as accommodation@aids2026.org. If you are unsure about an email or suspect a scam, please contact us at info@aids2026.org.
 

Quick links to our activities

Closing scientific gaps

Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research (CIPHER) Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise Towards an HIV Cure

Disseminating the latest research

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Improving health services

Community-Led Monitoring Differentiated Service Delivery Heart of Stigma Mark Wainberg Fellowship Programme Person-Centred Care Youth Hub

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The IAS promotes the use of non-stigmatizing, people-first language. The translations are all automated in the interest of making our content as widely accessible as possible. Regretfully, they may not always adhere to the people-first language of the original version.