The first full day of CROI 2026 featured a lecture that outlined the next steps in treating and preventing HIV.
The past year in the HIV space has been challenging across the country and the globe, as the Trump administration has introduced budget cuts that specifically affected global HIV aid, research grants were put on pause or halted altogether, and research into HIV vaccines was stopped indefinitely due to funding cuts. However, even as the HIV space sees all of these challenges, the epidemic continues to be a top health priority, as millions still live with the potentially deadly virus.
Ilesh Jani, PhD, from the Mozambique National Institute of Health in Maputo, Mozambique, began the first full day of CROI 2026 by going over the progress that has been made in HIV over the past 30 years, describing the challenges the past year has brought, and outlining his plan, highlighting 4 I’s, for how experts around the world should move forward.
Source : AJMC
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