The importance of routinely including people living with HIV in a diverse range of clinical research, including for cancer, was included at IAS 2025.
This included the launch of a sign-on campaign called The Kigali Manifesto on the Inclusion of People Living with HIV in Clinical Research. The document draws attention to how frequently HIV still remains an exclusion criteria for many studies relating to cancer and other complications.
The document was produced by the US organisation Sexual and Gender Minorities Alliance and introduced by Gilo Kiledjian from SGM in an IAS symposium on trial design.
Source : HIV i-Base
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