Brief: HIV at an Inflection Point

From March through May 2024, we convened a series of consultations with people living with HIV and community, government, corporate, and philanthropic stakeholders to examine progress toward global and domestic prevention and care goals. These dialogues yielded a recurring realization: The HIV response is at an inflection point. Will we keep innovating to develop better prevention and treatment tools and ultimately a cure? Will we keep expanding access to health care and social services? Will we keep removing the scourge of a global crisis? OR: Will we accept persistent disparities, increased polarization, and reduced commitment that results in more HIV and greater challenges? This moment demands that all stakeholders affirm their commitment to the long-term effort to support all people with HIV and the people and places for whom HIV remains a serious threat. This summarizes a series of three briefs we are releasing to provide actionable policy solutions to sustain and continue our remarkable progress.

Read the Big Ideas in Brief here.

Read “HIV at an Inflection Point: A Renewed Political Commitment Is Needed” here.

Read “HIV at an Inflection Point: Invigorating Community Impact” here.

Read “HIV at an Inflection Point: Looking Ahead and Leaving No One Behind” here.

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Visioning 2031 Participants:
Carlton Ray Smith, Baltimore, in memorial

Florence Anam – GNP+
Jacob Arman – The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
Lauren Banks – National AIDS Housing Coalition
Solange Baptiste – ITPC Global
Edwin Bernard – HIV Justice Network
Michelle E. Bonds – CDC
Catherine Brown – The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
Larry Bryant, Jr. – The Reunion Project
Barb Cardell – Positive Women’s Network
Juan Carmona – Orasure
Michael H. Chung – Emory University
Daniel Driffin – HIV Vaccine Trials Network
Douglas M. Brooks – University of Pennsylvania
Colleen Daniels – HRI Global
Rick Elion – Physician
Robyn Neblett Fanfair – CDC
Pamela Foster – University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
Debra Fraser-Howze – Choose Healthy Life
Ramon Gardenhire – ViiV Healthcare
Jeff Graham – Georgia Equality
Shannon Hader – American University
Joan Hicks – The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
Brian Honermann – amfAR
Vanessa Johnson – Ribbon Consulting
Venton Jones – Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network
Charles King – Housing Works
Larry Lehman – PIHCGA
Stephen Lee – NASTAD
Ron MacInnis – ICASA
Gabriel Maldonado – TruEvolution
Chad Martin – CDC
Rebecca Martin – Emory University
Eugene McCray – AIDS United
Patrick McGovern – Callen-Lorde
Jonathan Mermin – CDC
Jesse Milan, Jr. – AIDS United
Marissa Miller – Trans Solutions
Johanne E Morne – NY Health Dept
LaRon Nelson – Yale Univesity
Ravi Perry – Howard University
Mike Podmore – Stop AIDS UK
Melanie Reese – Older Women Experiencing Life
Matthew Rose – Human Rights Campaign
Asia Russell – Health Gap
Vinay Saldanha – UNAIDS
Paul Schaper – Merck
Linda H. Scruggs- Ribbon
Anne Spaulding – Emory University
Robert Suttle – HIV is not a Crime Council of Justice Leaders
Ron Ticho – Choose Healthy Life
Darwin Thompson – Gilead Sciences
Sandra L. Thurman – Emory University
Hank Tomlinson – CDC
Danny Whitman – Broadway CARES/Equity Fights AIDS
José Zúñiga – IAPACWith special remarks from
James W Curran – Emory University
Larry Gostin – Georgetown University
Usha Ramakrishnan – Emory University
and actor, singer, poet Christopher Prince