ICASA
Conference archive
Every edition, with its host city, theme, report and media. The record continues back to the first conferences of the 1990s; digitisation is ongoing.
2025
Africa's Response: Financing What Works
Kigali, Rwanda · 8–13 December 2025
The 23rd edition foregrounded domestic financing, long-acting prevention and the integration of HIV services into primary health care.
9,400 delegates1,246 abstracts2023
AIDS Is Not Over: Address Inequalities, Accelerate Inclusion and Innovation
Harare, Zimbabwe · 4–9 December 2023
Harare hosted the 22nd ICASA, with a strong focus on inequalities, key populations and adolescent health across the region.
8,100 delegates1,102 abstracts2021
Africa's AIDS Response: The Race to 2030 — Evidence. Scale-Up. Equality.
Durban, South Africa · 6–11 December 2021
A hybrid edition delivered under COVID-19 restrictions, pairing an in-person Durban programme with a large virtual delegation.
6,300 delegates980 abstracts2019
AIDS Free Africa: Innovation, Community and Political Leadership
Kigali, Rwanda · 2–7 December 2019
The 20th ICASA drew record attendance, with community leadership and political accountability as recurring plenary themes.
9,600 delegates1,318 abstracts2017
Africa: Ending AIDS — Delivering Differently
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire · 4–9 December 2017
Abidjan hosted the 19th ICASA, with francophone West Africa's service-delivery models at the centre of the programme.
7,800 delegates1,050 abstracts2015
AIDS in Post-2015 Era: Linking Leadership, Science and Human Rights
Harare, Zimbabwe · 29 November – 4 December 2015
The 18th ICASA opened the post-2015 agenda, connecting the new development goals to rights-based HIV programming.
7,000 delegates912 abstracts
Editions from 1991 to 2013 are being digitised and will appear here with scanned programmes and rapporteur reports.