In Rio de Janeiro, the International AIDS Society chose a Kenyan scientist, Professor Kenneth Ngure, to lead the world's largest professional body of HIV researchers and clinicians — a quiet but consequential shift in who holds authority over the global conversation about ending AIDS. Ngure brings more than two decades of prevention research, including foundational work on PrEP, to a role that few Africans have ever occupied. His election arrives as the 2030 deadline to end AIDS as a public health threat draws closer, and as the continent that carries roughly 70 percent of the world's HIV burd
Kenyan HIV scientist Kenneth Ngure elected president of International AIDS Society
The story addresses HIV/AIDS impact globally, with focus on disproportionate effects on young women and vulnerable populations in Africa.