July 28, 2022
Starting Friday, hundreds of experts, interested parties and those affected want to discuss strategies in the fight against HIV at the World AIDS Conference. After the 2020 conference had to be moved to the Internet due to the coronavirus pandemic, this time the meeting will take place again, at least in part, in Montreal, Canada, until August 2 with speeches, discussions and question and answer sessions. Among the participants, for example, is the US immunologist Anthony Fauci.
The conference, which was held for the first time in 1985, is considered the world’s largest scientific meeting on the subject of AIDS. The UN program to combat AIDS (UNAIDS) had already drawn attention in a report to the fact that the fight against HIV and AIDS had stalled worldwide. In the past two years – also in view of the corona pandemic and other crises – significantly fewer funds than before were available to fight HIV and AIDS. In some regions where the number of new infections had previously fallen, they are now rising again; Millions of lives are threatened. At the World AIDS Conference, the scientists now want to call for new efforts to strengthen the fight against HIV and AIDS again.