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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Aging Children Drug Control HIV/AIDS Human Rights Women Women/gender Equality Youth Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Human rights of women Millennium Development Goals Policy advice Research Women and HIV/AIDS Women and health Women and poverty Population: Morbidity and mortality Reproduction, family formation and the status of women Sustainable Development: Health
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Belgium Algeria Kuwait State of Palestine Paraguay Republic of Moldova Romania Spain Armenia Montenegro Democratic People's Republic of Korea Haiti Comoros Bolivia (Plurinational State of) New Zealand Bulgaria Guinea Panama Poland Tonga Ecuador Sierra Leone Germany Sudan Cuba Yemen Kazakhstan Mexico Philippines Nigeria Malaysia Peru Mongolia Egypt Norway Nepal Trinidad and Tobago Bhutan Cape Verde Namibia El Salvador Guyana Belarus Cambodia Mauritania Togo Libya Kenya Lao People's Democratic Republic Tajikistan Mozambique Luxembourg Democratic Republic of the Congo Uganda Zambia Türkiye Ukraine Mali Botswana Angola China Ethiopia Portugal Lebanon Oman Switzerland Fiji Denmark Iceland Uruguay Mauritius Nicaragua Saudi Arabia Liberia Lesotho Malawi Guatemala France Uzbekistan Jordan Antigua and Barbuda San Marino Qatar Benin Argentina Costa Rica Hungary Cameroon Papua New Guinea Ireland Kyrgyzstan Thailand Central African Republic Afghanistan Netherlands Eswatini Bosnia and Herzegovina Côte D'Ivoire Madagascar Republic of Korea Honduras Suriname Guinea Bissau Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Burkina Faso Maldives Czechia Greece Turkmenistan Saint Lucia Viet Nam Israel Seychelles Grenada Japan Latvia Italy Bangladesh Jamaica Azerbaijan Somalia Eritrea Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Congo Morocco Russian Federation Djibouti Bahrain United Arab Emirates Austria Croatia Lithuania Chile Albania India Barbados Iraq Dominican Republic Canada Sri Lanka Bahamas Monaco Colombia South Africa Gabon Pakistan United States of America Myanmar United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Serbia Singapore Slovakia Estonia Sweden United Republic of Tanzania Indonesia Cyprus Iran (Islamic Republic of) Tunisia Brazil Finland Georgia Zimbabwe Australia Gambia Syrian Arab Republic Ghana Burundi Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Slovenia Dominica Belize Rwanda
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Promote gender equality and empower women Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	The International AIDS Society is the world’s leading independent association of HIV professionals. Our members include professionals from all disciplines,most notably researchers, clinicians, nurses, laboratory technicians, educators, social service providers, health care providers, advocates, lawyers, media practitioners, and policy and programme planners. We are a global movement of people working together to end the HIV epidemic, applying scientific evidence and best practice at every level of the HIV response. We connect, we promote, we mobilize. Our values: Excellence in all we do Relevance Responsiveness Leadership Engagement Accountability Supportive workplace Social responsibility How we work Engaging our members Leveraging our convening power Advancing research Harnessing information technology Synergizing international & regional efforts Strengthening partnerships Harnessing our strengths Goals to achieve our mission Goal 1: Increase knowledge and skills and foster creative solutions to challenges in the response to AIDS through dialogue and debate. Goal 2: Advocate for implementation of effective, evidence-based policies and programmes to enhance the global response to AIDS. Goal 3: Strengthen research capacity, identify research priorities across all disciplines and advocate to address them. Foundations supporting our goals Foundation 1: Our international conferences on HIV and AIDS are effective and efficient. Foundation 2: Our organization is effective and sustainable. Foundation 3: Our membership is strong, diverse and experienced.
Year established:	1988
Year of registration:	1988
Organizational structure:	IAS Governing Council (GC) Every 2 years, IAS members from each of 5 the regions nominate members to serve a term of 4 years on the IAS GC. The next President and Treasurer are 1st elected amongst and by the members of the GC. Elections are held electronically amongst members within each region to fill the vacant seats on the GC. The 5 regions are USA and Canada, Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia and the Pacific Islands. The IAS Secretariat, with direction from the GC implements the work of the IAS. As the largest independent global association of HIV/AIDS professionals and custodian of the world’s two largest AIDS conferences, the International AIDS Conference and the IAS Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention Conference,IAS brings together and link individuals working in diverse disciplines and settings, separated by geography, culture, language and resource levels, and to leverage their expertise and knowledge in an effective, sustained global response to the epidemic. At its November 2010 retreat in Geneva, the IAS GC reviewed past and ongoing IAS policy advocacy work in light of the overall HIV/AIDS response. Based on major reports released by leading actors such as UNAIDS and WHO and embedded in the IAS’s current strategic plan, the GC agreed on priority areas for 2011 and 2012 using several criteria, including the contribution and leadership role that the IAS can play, the expertise and experience in the IAS and the profile of its membership, the use of IAS conferences and the likelihood of securing funding. The IAS will play a leadership role in four areas: • HIV cure with focus on global scientific strategy and a consortium • drug policies with focus on opioid substitution therapy (OST) • social and political sciences with focus on and around the IAS’s international conferences on HIV and AIDS • human rights with focus on HIV professionals and key vulnerable populations. IAS will work through partnerships and representation in other key areas. The IAS plans to aim higher into political leadership accountability including the G8, regional political bodies like SADC, African Union, NEPAD, EU, etc. The process will entail recording and tracking their pledges, commitments and progress in delivering official strategic frameworks. With a strong team of committed professionals in the Geneva office managing this work, in collaboration with Regional Partners, and strategic collaborations with UN agencies, private foundations, industry, community-based networks, PLHIV, and the International AIDS Conference/ the IAS Conference on Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, the IAS has supported a large number of activities aimed at influencing the global agenda.
Number and type of members:	The International AIDS Society (IAS) is the world's leading independent association of HIV professionals, with over 16,000 members from more than 194 countries working at all levels of the global response to AIDS. Our members include researchers from all disciplines, clinicians, public health and community practitioners on the frontlines of the epidemic, as well as policy and programme planners.
Affiliation with NGO networks:	Affiliation with IDPC, NGO Forum for Health and Alliance for Health Promotion
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Product sales and business services Foreign and international grants

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