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Be welcome to join us in an AIDS 2026 Affiliated Independent Event on the theme: #RethinkRebuildRise: #PutPeopleFirst to deliver on #endAIDS and #endTB targets in next 54 months.

Date: 3rd July 2026, Friday

Time: 2pm India time | 10:30am South Africa/ Zimbabwe

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Those who wish to join in-person:

Humana People to People India, 111/9-Z, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, Kishangarh Village, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, Delhi 110070. India.

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This AIDS 2026 Affiliated Independent Event approved by the International AIDS Society (IAS) would showcase successful and high-impact community or key population led interventions which are making a difference in Asia Pacific and African region and helping people with HIV lead normal lives and address TB-HIV co-infections as well.

It will also show integrated responses for addressing other HIV-related co-infections and co-morbidities.

We need to scale person-centred, rights-based and community-led solutions and keep the promise of 2030 targets of ending AIDS and TB both. We cannot shift the goalposts because we can bridge the deadly divide between what-we-know-works and what-we-do. It is time for accountability.

Thanks to science- and evidence-based and community-led proven tools and approaches we have today, no one should get newly infected with HIV or die of AIDS-related illnesses. Undetectable equals untransmittable or U equals U or U=U must be a reality in lives of all people with HIV. No person living with HIV should get infected with latent TB or develop active TB disease or suffer without standard treatment or die of any preventable infection like TB.

~50 speakers from ~25 countries worldwide

Session 1: Opening & setting the stage

Shobha Shukla, CNS Executive Director and Chairperson, Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA) and leads SHE & Rights, Prevent-Find-Treat ALL TB campaign (host)
Eamonn Murphy, UNAIDS Regional Director for Asia Pacific, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Dr Nittaya Phanuphak, Executive Director, Institute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI), Thailand
Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership
Dr Mitchell Warren, Executive Director, AVAC and Governing Council member of International AIDS Society (IAS)
Dr Urvashi B Singh, former Head (DDG) of Indian government’s National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP); and Professor - Microbiology, AIIMS Delhi

Session 2: Naresh Yadav Memorial PLHIV Leadership Summit

Chairperson: Manoj Pardeshi, National Coalition of People living with HIV in India (NCPI+), TAAL+ Healthcare and Community Pharmacy, NMP+
Florence Riako Anam, Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+)
Daxa Patel, Gujarat State Network of people living with HIV (GSNP+) and NCPI+
Albertina Nyatsi, Positive Women Together in Action Eswatini
Pooja Mishra, Youth Lead Voices and NCPI+
Nelson Otwoma, National Empowerment Network of People living with HIV in Kenya (NEPHAK)
Sita Shahi, International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) Asia Pacific
Medea Khmelidze, Eurasian Women’s Network on AIDS (EWNA), Georgia

Session 3: Scale the community- and key population-led high impact HIV and TB interventions

Chairperson: Dr BB Rewari, formerly led the ART programme of Government of India’s National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO); former WHO Southeast Asia Regional Advisor for viral Hepatitis/HIV and STIs; and currently Visiting Professor (Epidemiology), Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences (ILBS) of Government of Delhi (WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis)
Pongpeera Patpeerapong, MPLUS Foundation, Thailand
Nikolay Lunchenkov, ECOM (Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity), Germany
Manoj Pardeshi, TAAL+ social enterprise and community pharmacy
Numan Afifi, Programme and Advocacy Lead, APCOM (Thailand)
Bella Aubree, National Coordinator, Inti Muda Indonesia
Dr Sugata Mukhopadhyay, Humana People to People India (HPPI)
Ganna Dovbakh, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, Lithuania
Dechen Wangchuk, Y-PEER Asia Pacific (Bhutan)
Pooja Mishra, Youth Lead Voices & NCPI+
Talkmore Mazorodze, TB People (Eswatini)
Joshua Briangwong Clark, Joep Lange Awardee 2026, Uganda
Muhammad Tanwirul Huda, Rekat Peduli Foundation Indonesia
Dr Bornali Datta, Medanta Mission TB-Free India
Dr Samantha Tinsay, Philippines
Choub Sok Chamreun, KHANA Cambodia
Norman Kagiso Matiting, TB People (Botswana)
Tariro Kutadza, TB People (Zimbabwe)
Dr Rakesh PS, TB Elimination consultant

Session 4 | Bridging the deadly divide between what-we-know-works and what-we-do to end AIDS and end TB by 2030: #WeCanDoBetter!

Chairperson: Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, former head (DDG) of Government of India’s National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) and National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO); former South-East Asia Director of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union); and President-CMO Molbio

Dr Po-Lin Chan, Unit Head Hepatitis/ HIV/ STI/ EMTCT/ TB Department of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Control, World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office (WHO SEARO)
Anna Maalsen, Manager, Thematic Cluster on Key Populations, Community Engagement and Responses, The Global Fund
Bahati Haule, Unitaid Communities Delegation
Dr Tara Singh Bam, former Asia Pacific Director of International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union); Board Director of Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT); and Asia Pacific Director (Tobacco Control), Vital Strategies
Hasina Subedar, Senior Technical Advisor, National Department of Health, South Africa
Dr Ouk Vichea, Director, National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STI (NCHADS), Ministry of Health, Cambodia
Dr Reshu Agarwal, Technical Expert for HIV, Hepatitis, STI and EMTCT, World Health Organization (WHO) India
Asmita Ojha, Public Health Administrator, national AIDS and STIs programme (National AIDS and STIs Control Centre), Ministry of Health, Government of Nepal
Dr Imran Pambudi, former head of National TB Programme, MOH, Indonesia; former Director of Communicable Diseases MOH Indonesia; and current Director Vulnerable Groups Health Services, Ministry of Health, Indonesia
Dr Philip Mathew, Technical Officer (AMR), World Health Organization (WHO) HQ
Sumit Mitra, thought leader on bridging the deadly diagnostic divide in the Global South
Dr Ishwar Gilada, Governing Council member of International AIDS Society (IAS) and AIDS 2026 Prog. Committee member
Dr RK Sood, District TB Officer and District Health Officer, MOH, Kangra

Session 5 | Way forward and closing session

#WayForward address: Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar, Distinguished Professor, Symbiosis International University, Pune and former Head, Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
Shobha Shukla, Executive Director, CNS and Coordinator, Prevent-Find-Treat ALL TB campaign; and SHE & Rights

Organised together by:

National Coalition of People Living with HIV in India (NCPI Plus), Humana People to People India (HPPI), Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global), AVAC, International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) Asia Pacific, Y-PEER Asia Pacific, APCOM, MPLUS Foundation Thailand, Youth Lead Voices, Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT), Positive Women Together in Action Eswatini, National Empowerment Network of People living with HIV in Kenya (NEPHAK), Rekat Peduli Indonesia, KHANA Cambodia, Health TV Online Nepal, SHE & Rights, TB People (Eswatini), TB People (Botswana), TB People (Zimbabwe), PHO, Gujarat AIDS Prevention (GAP-ISRCDE), Asia Pacific Media Alliance for Health, Gender and Development Justice (APCAT Media), Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA), Development Justice for Older Persons (DJ4OP), Prevent-Find-Treat ALL TB to end TB campaign, and CNS, in collaboration with UNAIDS.

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