AVAC

06/12/2026

06/02/2026

Injectable LEN for is rolling out faster than any prevention option to date. This Friday, SA 🇿🇦 will become the 9th African country to introduce LEN.

Read our roundup of resources to track this progress & ensure the field moves with speed, scale and equity.

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Injectable lenacapavir for PrEP (LEN) is rolling out across Africa faster than any HIV prevention option to date. This Friday, South Africa will become the ninth African country to introduce LEN. Below are updated resources to track this progress and ensure the field moves with speed, scale and equi...

05/28/2026

is rapidly reshaping the response — bringing both new opportunities and new risks.

Explore AVAC’s new AI & HIV Newsletter covering the latest tools, research, policy and advocacy shaping AI in , care and treatment.

🔗 https://avac.org/blog/ai-hiv-newsletter/

05/22/2026

This week’s examines the outbreak and growing cracks in pandemic preparedness, debates over the future of WHO and the response at & continued dismantling of US public health leadership and scientific infrastructure.

🔗 Read the latest: https://buff.ly/iRoxPQ5

05/21/2026

📖 AVAC's newest Impact Report is out! The response requires real-time evidence & leadership rooted in lived experiences of the communities that are most impacted. This issue details AVAC’s role in advancing both.

🔗 https://buff.ly/tIaHBkX

05/18/2026

Big week for webinars at AVAC:

📍 Tues/Weds: + host “Global Conversations on Equitable Access”, https://avac.org/event/prep-power-webinar-african-countries/

📍 Weds: Nicholas Enrich joins us to discuss the decisions behind the dismantling + foreign aid freeze, https://avac.org/event/inside-the-decisions-that-changed-global-health/

05/18/2026

An remains essential to ending the epidemic, even amid px breakthroughs like for . Explore the latest resources & perspectives this : avac.org/blog/hvad2026/

Vaccines work. matters.

On this HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, AVAC is sharing resources and perspectives on the HIV vaccine pipeline, the science behind neutralizing antibodies, the state of bNAb combinations, and the broader state of HIV research amid the destruction and devastation of science and the HIV response. While an....

05/15/2026

This week’s covers: the future of & CDC’s role, RFK Jr.’s new “vaccine safety” initiative, the Andes outbreak & global coordination challenges + a rapid timeline to shut down the HIV, & supply chain system.

🔗 https://avac.org/blog/global-health-watch-issue68/

05/14/2026

Mark your calendars for this important discussion with whistleblower, Nicholas Enrich and author of Into the Wood Chipper.

🔗 Register: https://buff.ly/krZrqDH

05/11/2026

Learn about our new advocacy agendas & join us tomorrow, Tuesday as we discuss strategies to strengthen prevention, diagnostics & care across Kenya, South Africa & Zimbabwe.

Register: https://buff.ly/vO6TMMy

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