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1. HIV&AIDS Opening Plenary

Monday, September 15, 2025
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Speaker

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Miłosz Parczewski

Keynote Presentation: The future of Antiretroviral therapy

8:55 AM - 9:25 AM

Biography

Miłosz Parczewski has received the MD diploma at the Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland in 2002 and was granted a Ph.D diploma in molecular epidemiology of HIV in 2007 and a title of professor of medicine in 2016 based on the scientific publications on HIV resistance and transmission networks. Current President of European AIDS Clinical Society for the term 2025-2027. National Consultant for Infectious Diseases appointed in 2023. Since 2017 to 2024 President of the Polish Scientific AIDS Society, Council Member for the European Society on Antiviral Resistance, associate editor of BMJ STI and HIV Medicine journals.
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Associate Professor Edwina Wright
Associate Professor
Alfred Health, Monash University

Keynote Presentation: The future of PrEP in Australia: Pharmacy PrEP

9:25 AM - 10:05 AM

Biography

Dr Wright is a clinician and researcher in HIV medicine. Her research leadership lies in the areas of HIV dementia, early antiretroviral therapy, HIV cure and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). She has led several large, national and international trials and has published in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. Dr Wright is a Past President of ASHM and is the current Chair of the ASHM PrEP Guidelines Committee. In 2021 Dr Wright was awarded an Order of Australia for her work in HIV Medicine and Research.
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A/Prof Alexander McClelland
Associate Professor
Carelton Univesity

Keynote Presentation: Data Justice and the Rights of People Living with HIV

10:05 AM - 10:35 AM

Biography

Alexander McClelland’s public-facing and community-engaged research program is focused on the intersection of life, law, and illness. As someone living with HIV, he aims to develop new qualitative knowledge to support the realization of rights to bodily autonomy for people living with HIV. A fundamental orientation of McClelland’s work the principles of Nothing About Us, Without Us, and the Greater and Meaningful Involvement of People with HIV. Bringing together the fields of critical criminology, surveillance studies, feminist social research, science and technology studies, and critical public health, McClelland’s work attends to understanding the impacts of criminalization processes and public health surveillance.
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