Join PATH at IAS 2025
Driving a sustainable HIV response through integration into strengthened primary health care, private-sector, and community-led platforms.
The global HIV response is at a fragile point. Recent shifts within the global HIV financing landscape threaten to erase decades of progress in preventing new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths, and in enabling quality of life and well-being for people living with HIV through access to treatment.
The silver lining—countries, communities, and the private sector have taken rapid steps to minimize the impact of decreased financing and build a more sustainable response through greater domestic financing for HIV and related services; focused investment in integrated, people-centered service delivery and systems; and fostering greater involvement of private-sector and community delivery platforms to ensure service access.
At the 13th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science in Kigali, Rwanda, PATH will showcase how we are partnering with governments, private-sector clinics and service delivery points, and communities to advance a sustainable HIV response, focusing on advancing feasible, affordable, and high-quality service bundles and integrated systems responsive to people’s holistic health needs through a life-course approach; deepening decentralization of HIV services through community, peer, private sector, and virtual delivery modalities; and advancing market research to facilitate sustainable entry of novel health products.
See below for a full schedule of PATH’s satellite symposia, oral presentations, and poster presentations and follow the conversation online at #IAS2025!
- Satellite sessions and symposia
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Satellite session (SAT)15: Towards the finish line: Leveraging science to accelerate progress, sustain impact, and shape the future of HIV
When: Monday, July 14; 3:00–4:30 PM CAT
Where: MH4
The global response to HIV has been severely impacted by recent suspensions and reductions in official development assistance for health programs, threatening the continuity of essential health services, leading to setbacks in preventing new infections, and increasing the risk of a resurgence in epidemics. This World Health Organization (WHO)-convened session will explore how science can drive the final push towards ending AIDS and related epidemics. Experts will discuss how political commitment, innovative research and evidence-based interventions are crucial to accelerating progress, supporting integration and sustaining impact in the future of the global HIV response.
Dr. Kimberly Green will share an overview of the science behind and latest evidence on integration of HIV within PHC.
SAT20: Making Triple Elimination a reality: New strategies, partnerships and financing to increase access to integrated HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B, and Chagas screening and care through ante- and post-natal services
When: Tuesday, July 15; 7:30–8:30 AM CAT
Where: AD12
Despite strong political commitments, HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B virus, and Chagas disease combined remains the leading cause of preventable stillbirth and child mortality. Progress has been hampered by lack of evidence from practical integrated models of care through primary health care (PHC), antenatal care (ANC), and community delivery platforms. This dynamic session will feature perspectives and preferences of women with lived experience, replicable case studies highlighting feasible solutions for integrating triple elimination interventions within ANC and PHC platforms, and conclude with an expert panel sharing considerations for establishing normative, financing, delivery, and monitoring structures that enable rapid scale-up and sustainability of acceptable, feasible and cost-effective approaches.
This session, co-sponsored by PATH, WHO, the International Community of Women Living with HIV-Eastern Africa, World Hepatitis Alliance, Unitaid, and IAS—the International AIDS Society, will feature Dr. Kimberly Green as a co-chair and panel moderator.
SAT01: From crises to sustained access: Pathways to integrated people-centered HIV and primary health care
When: Wednesday, July 16; 6:00–7:30 PM CAT
Where: MH4
Global health is undergoing a tumultuous shift. Funding cuts have disrupted health care delivery, with up to an additional 2.93 million HIV deaths and 10.75 million new HIV infections estimated by 2030. Yet, this shift allows countries to reconsider their health care systems—advancing integration into PHC to achieve sustainable health for all. This pragmatic session—co-sponsored by PATH, WHO, the Global Network of People living with HIV, UNAIDS, and IAS—will consider how, when, and where HIV services and enabling multisectoral actions and systems (human resources for health; supply chain; financing) are included in PHC approaches to ensure people living with and vulnerable to HIV are not left behind. This session will feature novel public-, private- and community-led efforts to integrate HIV into PHC; highlight HIV learnings adopted within country PHC reforms; and conclude with considerations for integrated HIV/PHC models to ensure long-term sustainability as part of UHC2030 goals
PATH’s Dr. Kimberly Green will co-chair the session and co-moderate the panel discussion and also highlight the latest tools for assessing country health systems’ integration readiness. The session will also highlight work supported by PATH in Kenya and Vietnam to sustain people-centered HIV services through integration within public-sector PHC platforms and community- and private-sector-led clinics, respectively.
- Oral and live poster presentations
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Oral abstract session (OAC03): Overcoming stigma: applying peer-based outreach and linkage strategies to enhance linkage to care after HIV self-testing among key populations in Uganda
Session: From distribution to linkage: Strategies to improve HIV self testing, diagnosis and care across diverse settingsWhen: Wednesday, July 16; 10:45–11:45 AM CAT
Where: MH2
Presenter: Justine Tumusiime
LB46: Expanding pre-exposure prophylaxis access and continuity through differentiated service delivery models for key populations in Vietnam
When: July 15-17; 12:15–1:15 PM CAT
Where: Poster Exhibition (Late-Breaker Posters; Track E)
Presenter: Dr. Kimberly Green
THPEE134: A roadmap to scale up person-centred care in the HIV response: recommendations from a global consensus process
When: Thursday, July 17; 12:15–1:15 PM CAT
Where: Poster Exhibition
Co-author: Dr. Kimberly Green
- Poster presentations
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EP0836: Expanding innovative self-testing delivery options in Ukraine through a social media-driven information campaign engaging social medial influencers
Presenter: Svitlana Leontieva
EP1092: Optimizing HIV testing data reported through Ukraine’s Information System for Monitoring Socially Important Diseases to facilitate enhanced data use for decision making
Presenter: Nina Roman
EP0837: Deploying various innovative HIV self-testing (HIVST) distribution approaches in Ukraine
Presenter: Svitlana Leontieva
EP0339: Market size and demand estimations to enable introduction and scale-up of community preferred low dead space syringes and needles
Presenter: Kanishk Gupta
EP0478: Targeted social network-based testing during the year 2023 among individuals vulnerable to HIV in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Co-authors: Yanthan Yanchenthung; Temjennungsang Jamir; Hinile Tep; Ashis Chakraborty; Christina Lalrindiki; Robert Lalrempuia; Pankaj Choudhury; Rajkumar Singh; Dr. G.S. Shreenivas; Rajiv Sindhu; Dr. Asha Hegde
EP0477: Expanding coverage by integrating provider-initiated HIV counselling and testing services at out-patient departments during year 2023 in northeastern India
Co-authors: Dr. Asha Hegde; Dr. G.S. Shreenivas; Syed Iqbal; Vaishnavi Jondhale; Pranati Jha; Anushri Saxena; Sachin Bhagat
EPLB002: Improving treatment continuity and viral suppression during the year 2023 among people living with HIV (PLHIV) re-engaged in care in Mumbai, India
Co-authors: Santosh Wani; Prashant Deshpande; Sagar Koli; Shashikant Todmal; Sachin Bhagat; Pranati Jha; Tejas Mulik; Dr. Asha Hegde
LB28: Telehealth Triumph: Electronic initiation (e-initiation) to reduce linkage loss to Anti-retroviral therapy initiation during the year 2024 among newly diagnosed People living with HIV) in the Northeastern States of India
Co-authors: Rokomeno Kuotsu; Ashis Chakraborty; Lalit Ingudum; Prashant Deshpande; Shashikant Todmal; Pranati Jha; Dr. Asha Hegde
EPLB001: Improving viral suppression among children living with HIV during year 2023 through age-appropriate doses of anti-retroviral therapy (ART): An experience from Mumbai, India
Co-authors: Sagar Koli; Prashant Deshpande; Anushri Saxena; Vaishnavi Jondhale; Sachin Bhagat; Shashikant Todmal; Kiran Yewale; Dr. Asha Hegde