Highlights of Kaiser Family Foundation’s coverage of the XVIII International AIDS Conference. The conference was held July 18 – July 23, 2010, in Vienna Austria.

This Kaiser/CSIS forum examines the major policy, research and other developments arising from the 2010 International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna, Austria.

The International AIDS Society (IAS) in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) convened a global consultation meeting on prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS among drug using populations from 11-12 January 2010 in Washington DC.

For more information on this session, including access to speaker presentations, please see the conference Programme-at-a-Glance.

For more information on this session, including access to speaker presentations, please see the conference Programme-at-a-Glance.

For more information on this session, including access to speaker presentations, please see the conference Programme-at-a-Glance.

Speakers Include: Elly Katabira (Uganda) Dmytro Sherembey (Ukraine) Manfred Nowak (Austria) Elizabeth Gwyther (South Africa) David Thomas (United States) Brigitte Schmidt (Austria) Rachel Ong (Singapore) Diane Havril (United States)

Collectively we have made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS – 4 million people have access to treatment, millions of children orphaned by AIDS are receiving essential services and health systems are being strengthened.

Where Europe and Central Asia are in terms of HIV prevention, treatment and political commitment?

The past decade has shown that providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) makes clinical, social and economic sense. ART is bending all epidemiological curves, resulting in reduced morbidity and mortality, and recent research now shows that treatment also reduces HIV incidence. Despite this evidence, donors are shifting their focus away from AIDS just as efforts should be ramped up.