Some people reading this blog will not be going to AIDS 2018.
Here are some ways you can keep up with some of what is going on even if you are not attending the conference.
Those of you who are going to be at AIDS 2018 might also find a lot of this information useful.… Read more
With less than a week to go information is flying in thick and fast as final programmes – especially for the Global Village spaces and networking zones – are finalised.
Keep on checking back on the conference programme to see more – and even when you arrive at the conference check out the programmes posted in the networking zones for events that did not make it into the final programme.… Read more
On the main stage in the Global Village all through the week there will be performances and events. Here are a few of the highlights I have picked out:
On Wednesday 25 July, 17:20 – 18:20 there will be a U=U 2018 dance party!… Read more
Dawn in Amsterdam during the summer is beautiful, fresh, and still. In late July sunrise will be just after 5.15am. This may be some consolation for the fact that some sessions will be starting at 7.00am on the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of the conference
From the eight sessions that start at 7.00 am at the conference facility on Tuesday I have picked out three to whet your appetite for an early start, and it is highly likely that there will be a coffee and a pastry available for those who have made the effort to attend.… Read more
It was not until the 1993 AIDS conference in Berlin that a person who uses drugs openly living with HIV was given the opportunity to address a plenary of the International AIDS Conference. That was John Mourdant, who repeatedly used the refrain in his plenary address “There is no war on drugs.… Read more