Thinking about the “End of AIDS”: Pasts, Presents and Futures The idea of “ending AIDS” has become central to global health agendas over the past decade. Governments and international organisations have committed to ending AIDS by 2030, reshaping national strategies, research priorities, and public health campaigns. Yet with only five years left to meet this goal—and amid the aftershocks of COVID-19 and the global dismantling of public health infrastructures—these targets now appear increasingly out of reach.This online World AIDS Day roundtable brings together leading thinkers from public health, anthropology, and history to reflect on what the “end of AIDS” means today. What kinds of knowledge, interventions, and futures does this promise produce? What does it conceal or leave out? And how might we imagine different ways of understanding and responding to HIV in a changing world?Speakers:Nora Kenworthy (University of Washington Bothell) – Anthropologist and author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017).Javier Padilla (Secretary of State for Health, Spanish Government) – Primary Care Doctor. As Secretary of State for Health, leads public health across Spain.Justin Pérez (UC Santa Cruz) – Anthropologist and author of Queer Emergent: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru (Duke University Press, 2025)Mandisa Mbali (University of Cape Town) – Historian of AIDS activism and global health politics, author of South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics (Palgrave, 2013)The event is hosted by the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute. It is organised by Jaime Garcia-Iglesias. Dec 03 2025 14.30 - 15.30 Thinking about the “End of AIDS”: Pasts, Presents and Futures A roundtable with international key voices on what "Ending AIDS" mean and what will come after 2030. Online Register on Eventbrite here
Thinking about the “End of AIDS”: Pasts, Presents and Futures The idea of “ending AIDS” has become central to global health agendas over the past decade. Governments and international organisations have committed to ending AIDS by 2030, reshaping national strategies, research priorities, and public health campaigns. Yet with only five years left to meet this goal—and amid the aftershocks of COVID-19 and the global dismantling of public health infrastructures—these targets now appear increasingly out of reach.This online World AIDS Day roundtable brings together leading thinkers from public health, anthropology, and history to reflect on what the “end of AIDS” means today. What kinds of knowledge, interventions, and futures does this promise produce? What does it conceal or leave out? And how might we imagine different ways of understanding and responding to HIV in a changing world?Speakers:Nora Kenworthy (University of Washington Bothell) – Anthropologist and author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017).Javier Padilla (Secretary of State for Health, Spanish Government) – Primary Care Doctor. As Secretary of State for Health, leads public health across Spain.Justin Pérez (UC Santa Cruz) – Anthropologist and author of Queer Emergent: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru (Duke University Press, 2025)Mandisa Mbali (University of Cape Town) – Historian of AIDS activism and global health politics, author of South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics (Palgrave, 2013)The event is hosted by the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute. It is organised by Jaime Garcia-Iglesias. Dec 03 2025 14.30 - 15.30 Thinking about the “End of AIDS”: Pasts, Presents and Futures A roundtable with international key voices on what "Ending AIDS" mean and what will come after 2030. Online Register on Eventbrite here
Dec 03 2025 14.30 - 15.30 Thinking about the “End of AIDS”: Pasts, Presents and Futures A roundtable with international key voices on what "Ending AIDS" mean and what will come after 2030.
