Brazilian researcher to chair International AIDS Society
Brazilian infectologist and researcher Beatriz Grinsztejn will be the first Latin American woman to serve as chair of the International AIDS Society (IAS), which brings together professionals who work with the disease. She will take office for 2024–2026 next Friday (Jul. 26) at the end of the 25th International AIDS Conference in Munich, Germany.Grinsztejn, a researcher at the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI/Fiocruz), said she will be taking Brazil’s positive experiences in HIV treatment and prevention to international audiences. The country, she noted, has become a role model in the field and boasts a “spectacular” program that provides free and universal access to Brazilians through the country’s the unified health care network, the SUS.“In Brazil we hav...