Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit 2025
The 9th Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit hosted by NMAC (formerly National Minority AIDS Council) will be held in Atlanta, GA, from Thursday, April 10 to Saturday, April 12, 2025.
History: In 2016, NMAC created the Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit (Summit) as a response to the high rates of HIV diagnosis among Black and Latinx people and the health inequities in PrEP and treatment access for communities of color.
Since inception, our goal is to translate scientific discovery and biomedical solutions for the HIV workforce into effective delivery to communities that need them the most. In its ninth year, the Summit is a unique convening of federal and state government, the HIV workforce, the healthcare sector, and PrEP users and advocates.
Focus Areas: The 2025 Summit will focus on combining scientific advancements, technological innovations and implementation science to significantly enhance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV. These innovations hold the potential to ultimately work towards the goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by:
- Improving PrEP and HIV treatment uptake among people of color
- Improving health outcomes for individuals living with HIV,
- Reducing HIV stigma
The Summit will also focus on “implementation science,” which encompasses strategies and skills, including decision science and operations research, health systems research, health outcomes research, health and behavioral economics, epidemiology, statistics, organization and management science, finance, policy analysis, anthropology, sociology, and ethics. By providing an in-depth exploration of these efforts and challenges, the Summit aims to prepare its audience for ongoing and future work needed to end the HIV epidemic.
Summit Goals
- Foster dialog about community, scientific and technological innovations, their implementation, and how they facilitate access to PrEP and HIV Treatment.
- Think creatively about the significance of data and how to use it to integrate innovation and technology into HIV diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and care.
- Develop collaborative efforts to build capacity among communities that can benefit from these innovations and their service and care providers.
- Explore the significance of best practices and evidence-based programs that use technological innovation to address health disparities and social determinants of health.
Agenda & Tracks
The theme for the 2025 Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit is “Innovation and Futurism to End the HIV Epidemic.”
Centered around the theme, the agenda converges 11 tracks of which 7 are focused on topics related to the theme and 4 will be sponsored tracks by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health(NIH), and the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA).
- TRACK 1 – Antiretroviral Therapy Improvements and Long Acting Treatment Preparedness
- TRACK 2- Health Equity, Culture Relevance, Community Health Workers, Peer Navigators, Mobile and Digital Health Technologies
- TRACK 3 – Access to Care, Diagnostics, Remote Monitoring, Integrated Health Services and Digital Health Tools
- TRACK 4 – Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Long Acting and Injectables, Oral Formulations. ARVs for Anal Douche and Vaginal Ring
- TRACK 5 – Tackling Syndemics through New Technologies
- TRACK 6 – Artificial Intelligence (AI), Wearables and Personalized Medicine
- TRACK 7 – HIV Policy Innovations and Health Equity
- TRACK 8 – Ending the HIV Epidemic: Shaping the Future Through Innovation and Futurism
- TRACK 9 – A Federal track with workshops by CDC, HRSA, NIH, and SAMHSA