On Friday, August 10, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) held a briefing to assess the major outcomes of the 2018 International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018), held from July 23-27 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The discussion touched on the latest scientific developments; the current funding climate for the AIDS response; and other major developments to the field emerging from the conference. In addition, panelists looked ahead toward the AIDS 2020 conference.

The panel included Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator; Chris Beyrer, professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and past president of the International AIDS Society; Jen Kates, KFF vice president and director of Global Health and HIV Policy; Greg Millett, Vice President and Director, Public Policy, at amfAR; and J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director of the Global Health Policy Center at CSIS.