Aim Explore barriers and facilitators to community's meaningful engagement and participation in industry-led HIV cure research to ensure acceptability, scalability, and cost effectiveness of HIV cure research interventions. Description Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) can efficiently control HIV infection and improve the lives of people living with HIV, treatment requires life-long adherence, which is challenging for many due to a host of factors. An HIV cure could overcome the limitations of ART, reduce new HIV transmissions, stigma and discrimination, and provide a sustainable financial solution for epidemic control. Efforts to coordinate HIV cure research engagement and advocacy have emerged through formal partnerships between academia and industry. Engaging community in this effort remains an imperative, especially in sub-Saharan Africa which bears the burden of HIV infection. Increasing knowledge dissemination, building capacity for advocacy, and increasing involvement of end-users into the strategy and design of cure research are key to ensure acceptability, scalability, and cost effectiveness of HIV cure research interventions. This satellite will discuss how best to engage and involve communities of people living with HIV in end-to-end product development and in particular clinical research in Africa.

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