“In the face of COVID-19, the global HIV community banded together to apply lessons learned from decades of pandemic response. It is now critical to get the HIV response back on track. AIDS 2022 will be a pivotal moment to once more galvanize the scientific, policy and activist communities to push the response forward. We owe it to the hundreds of thousands of people we still lose to AIDS-related illnesses every year.” – IAS President and AIDS 2022 International Co-Chair Adeeba Kamarulzaman

The annual INTEREST Conference is the premier scientific conference for HIV in Africa and brings together scientists involved in HIV treatment, pathogenesis, and prevention research from around the world. The conference will showcase cutting-edge knowledge in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV and the prevention of the HIV-1 infection. Additionally, it will continue to foster building a community of African physicians and scientists to facilitate the implementation of local solutions for the management of patients living with HIV-1 infection and for the prevention of HIV transmission. Read more

IPHASA will share paediatric HIV evidence and good practices to help support in-country implementation and adaptation across the African continent. Symposium participants will include healthcare workers, policy makers, programme implementers, representatives of ministries of health and researchers working on paediatric HIV.

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East African Health and Scientific Conference (EAHSC) is an EAC biennial event convened in East Africa by the EAHRC in collaboration with a host EAC Partner States. Hosting of the event is rotational to each of the Partner States and at the Partner States level is coordinated through the ministries responsible for EAC affairs, ministries responsible for health and other relevant and it is done in close collaboration with regional and international health-related NGO's, civil society, individuals and stakeholders. The EAHSC contributes towards strengthening regional cooperation in health and enhances the EAC ideals of free movement of People, Services and Goods.

From 15-16 November, WomenLift Health will convene the fifth annual Women Leaders in Global Health (WLGH) Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is Reimagining Leadership: centering diverse women and girls in health, catalyzing institutional change, optimizing pathways to leadership, and building integrated and resilient health systems. In the midst of a continued global health crisis, the conference comes at a unique time to reimagine leadership to drive transformative change in health.  

This year’s conference will take place in a virtual format, providing an opportunity to reach a broader audience, elevate new voices, and facilitate geography-specific discussion, while maintaining the sense of global community, learning and passion that has characterized the conferences since their start.  More information can be found here.

The Joep Lange Chair Program organizes an annual Masterclass on the same theme as the Symposium, The Future of Vaccination. The Masterclass gives early-stage researchers and PhD students the opportunity to present their research to world-class experts and receive constructive feedback. More information can be found here.

The conference theme, Lung Health for All: Solutions for a New Era, explores the challenges facing global health. With the world still in the grip of a lung health pandemic, it is also confronting questions about systemic race relations and how the same vulnerable communities that bear the brunt of TB and HIV have now been hit the hardest by COVID-19. Our REMIND-TB team has a number of oral and poster presentations.

The Tenth EDCTP Forum will take place virtually from 17-21 October 2021. This Tenth Forum, our first virtual Forum, is an opportunity for participants working in global health research around the world to join with us in diverse Forum activities anchored in a compelling scientific programme. Our team has a number of presentations and our PI, will talk on the EDCTP alumni day.

8th Tanzania Health Summit Meeting Agenda

THEME: “Leaving no one behind 2021-2026: Analyzing the promise, and tracking the progress

The commitment to ‘leave no one behind (LNOB) is a core principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The Tanzanian Government has also adopted it through the Ministry of Health Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) ‘Leaving no one behind’ during the launching event of the Health Sector Strategic Plan Five (HSSP V) 2021 – 2026 (1). Leave no one behind puts equity at the center of national policy agendas, representing a critical improvement over the previous set of Millennium Development Goals(2), which were largely silent on the issue of social disparities.

The International Workshop on HIV & Adolescence 2021 will take place as a virtual program over 4 days: 29-30 September & 6-7 October. 

Adolescents are developmentally at a difficult crossroad, which makes it challenging to attract and sustain adolescents’ focus on maintaining their health. Every effort must be made to engage and retain adolescents in care so they can improve and maintain their health for the long term.

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