Living2026 Pre-Conference Agenda
Cdesign Hotel, Av. Lúcio Costa, 17.360, Recreio dos Bandeirantes
PART I – MORNING SESSIONS
July 25, 2026
8:00 am – 8:45 am
Registration and Welcome
Registration desk opens
8:45 am – 9:15 am
SESSION 1 – KICKOFF LIVING2026 PRE-CONFERENCE:
PLHIV Political Moment and the 10-year Milestone of U=U
- This panel celebrates the huge milestones of the PLHIV community U=U campaign and its impact on policy, programs and service delivery.
- Asserts with strong evidence why sustaining U=U is not only a scientific achievement but a political mandate, requiring coordinated global solidarity, aligned institutions, and strengthened PLHIV-led systems.
9:15 am – 10:15 am
SESSION 2 – OPENING PLENARY PLHIV LEADERSHIP AND THE GLOBAL HIV AGENDA Format
Panel Presentation Panel objectives:
- Bring in global HIV response leaders who have supported U=U to celebrate their partnership and cement commitments for continued collaboration beyond 2031, positioning U=U as a political pathway to epidemic control.
- Challenge global actors to uphold GIPA by elevating PLHIV leadership and agency through the 2026 Political Declaration on Ending AIDS, including meaningful PLHIV influence in data collection, research agendas, evidence generation, and the shaping of implementation guidelines.
- Assert that PLHIV leadership is the driving force behind the next decade of U=U, in Integrating HIV services and in shaping the political, scientific, and moral direction of
the global HIV response.
COFFEE BREAK
PART II – MIDDAY SESSIONS
July 25, 2026
10:30 am – 11:15 am
SESSION 3 – PANEL 1 PLHIV LEADERSHIP AND FINANCING MODELS FOR EQUITY
Format: Fireside Chat Session objectives:
- Address global institutions to redesign financing models, integration frameworks, and accountability mechanisms so they are anchored in PLHIV leadership, ensuring the next decade of PLHIV leadership is politically protected and sustainably resourced.
- Challenge global institutions, governments, and industry to dismantle criminalization, stigma, and structural inequities that undermine PLHIV leadership, integration, and U=U.
11:15 am – 12:30 pm
SESSION 4 – BREAKOUT STRATEGIC THEMATIC DIALOGUES
Building the Next Decade of PLHIV-led Treatment Access and Innovation Format: Breakout Group Work Session Objectives
- This session brings participants together to identify the political, programmatic, and structural responses needed over the next decade to address interruptions in fiscal space, shifts in geopolitical priorities, and mounting pressures on PLHIV-led systems.
- Participants will break into four thematic groups. Each group will generate concrete, PLHIV-focused recommendations that assert PLHIV leadership as indispensable to sustaining U=U, protecting rights, and shaping the future of HIV programmes, science, and systems.
75 mins
STRATEGIC THEME 1 — THE NEXT DECADE OF PLHIV LEADERSHIP AND U=U
75 mins
STRATEGIC THEME 2 – SUSTAINING PLHIV-LED SYSTEMS, YOUTH LEADERSHIP AND INTEGRATION
75 mins
STRATEGIC THEME 3 – INNOVATION, HUMAN RIGHTS & EQUITY
75 mins
STRATEGIC THEME 4 – PLHIV LEADERSHIP & NATIONAL TO GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
LUNCH
PART III – AFTERNOON SESSIONS
July 25, 2026
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
SESSION 5 – PANEL 2 PLHIV LEADERSHIP AND TREATMENT ACCESS AND INNOVATIONS
Format: Panel Presentation
Session Objectives:
- Provide updates on innovations in HIV treatment.
- Assert PLHIV leadership involvement in shaping the future of HIV science, innovation, and rights-based policy, where PLHIV leadership must define priorities, governance, and equitable access.
- Address global actors to ensure that emerging technologies, long-acting treatments, diagnostics, and cure research are grounded in lived experience, human rights, and equity.
BREAK
PART IV – AFTERNOON SESSIONS
July 25, 2026
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
SESSION 6 – PARTNER-LED CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Format: Breakout sessions Partners leading the sessions are responsible for designing their 90-minute session, including assigning facilitators and note-takers.
CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Topic: ADVANCED HIV DISEASE
Lead Partner: AfroCAB
CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Topic: PLHIV STIGMA INDEX
Lead Partner: ICW
CONCURRENT SESSION 3
Topic: ViiV Healthcare
Lead Partner: ViiV Healthcare
CONCURRENT SESSION 4
Topic: GIPA for Integration
Lead Partner: GNP+, Stop TB, NCD Alliance, Hepatitis Alliance, United for Global Mental Health, and other PLHIV networks
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
SESSION 7 – CLOSING PLENARY
COMMITMENTS TO COLLECTIVE ACTION: A UNIFIED AGENDA FOR THE NEXT DECADE OF PLHIV LEADERSHIP
Format: Panel
Session Objectives:
- Synthesize the key commitments from global actors, institutions, and partners to ensure PLHIV leadership remains central to the HIV response over the next decade.
- Transform the insights from plenaries and strategic breakout themes into clear priorities and recommendations for global, regional, and country-level action.
- Close with a collective call to action that strengthens global solidarity, aligns institutions behind PLHIV-defined priorities, and commits to sustained partnership through 2031 and beyond.
- Thank all participants, partners, and sponsors for their invaluable contributions and continued commitment to advancing PLHIV leadership and the global HIV response.
Notes: The session details, topics and agenda flow contained in this draft are final. Names of speakers will be updated as they confirm.