President's Dream Colloquium on HIV/AIDS

In 1981, the first cases of the virus that came to be known as HIV were reported in Los Angeles. In the forty years since, the international response to what became a global epidemic sparked impactful collaborations between researchers, grassroots activists, policy-makers and clinicians that generated scientific breakthroughs, sparked social movements, and profoundly impacted our understanding of human rights.

Ironically, the success of biomedical and policy interventions for people living with HIV has led to a reduction in global funding that is inhibiting efforts to end AIDS by 2030. Over half of the 38 million people living with HIV globally lack access to adequate treatment, and the rate of new infections remains high. To uphold the international commitment to ending AIDS - including among high risk and vulnerable populations - there is a need to bring new scholarly, policy and public attention to the successes achieved, lessons learned, and challenges that remain. Efforts to strengthen and encourage partnership between decision makers, the scientific community, and community-based advocates towards the international goal of ending AIDS by 2030 remain as necessary as ever.

The President’s Dream Colloquium on HIV/AIDS is generously funded and supported by: