Ending AIDS will require innovation in HIV prevention – especially a vaccine

IAVI has joined world leaders, researchers and advocates gathered at UN Headquarters for a three-day conference aimed at accelerating progress toward an ambitious goal—to end AIDS by 2030. Delegates to the High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS have called for accelerated action against the disease through intensified prevention, treatment, care and support programs that will help reduce new infections and increase life expectancy, quality of life and the dignity of all people living with, at risk of, and affected by HIV/AIDS and their families. “The global fight against HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest challenges of modern times. The delegates in New York, as well as civil society, governments, international agencies, researchers and health care professionals around the world deserve to be congratulated for unprecedented solidarity, political will, innovation and funding that have enabled remarkable progress in treatment and prevention,” says Mark Feinberg, IAVI’s President and CEO. “And while we must make maximum...