{"id":574649,"date":"2026-07-30T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574649\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:01:08","slug":"avac-innovation-without-access-is-injustice-aids-2026-opens-in-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574649\/","title":{"rendered":"AVAC: Innovation without access is injustice: AIDS 2026 opens in Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInnovation without access is injustice.\u201d That message, delivered during Monday evening\u2019s opening ceremony of the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) by Brazil\u2019s Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha and media personality, Alberto Pereira Jr. captured the defining theme emerging from the first days of the meeting. As scientific innovation accelerates with new prevention options, cure research and long-acting antiretroviral treatment advancing, advocates, researchers, health officials and donors are warning that shrinking funding, unequal access and fragile delivery systems threaten to undermine decades of progress. The message is clear: scientific innovation alone will not end the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avac.org\/blog\/innovation-without-access-is-injustice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Check out<\/a> AVAC\u2019s highlights from the preconference, satellite and opening sessions.SEE ALSO:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cInnovation without access is injustice.\u201d That message, delivered during Monday evening\u2019s opening ceremony of the 26th International AIDS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-574649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}