Plenaries

Plenaries are large meetings open to all delegates during which no other formal Conference sessions are scheduled.

Opening and Closing Sessions

The Conference opening and closing sessions will captivate the attention of Conference participants while setting the tone for the Conference and providing an opportunity to review the results and future impact of AIDS 2006. Both events will be open to all registered delegates, registered accompanying persons, exhibitors, and members of the media.

The opening session will feature significant speakers and cultural activities to inform and engage participants and welcome them to AIDS 2006 and to Toronto, Canada. The closing session will be a call to action held immediately after the rapporteur summary session on the Conference’s final day and will provide delegates with a clear sense of the commonly identified priorities for moving forward.

Plenary Sessions

Plenary sessions start each day’s proceedings and bring all Conference delegates together in one large session. Each plenary session includes three to four speakers drawn from the world’s most distinguished researchers, community leaders and policy specialists who address related topics. At least one of the plenary session speakers each day will speak to one of the identified key challenges.

Rapporteur Summary Session

Rapporteur teams are Conference staff that will report throughout the Conference on key findings and developments in each of the five scientific programme tracks, each of the four key challenges, the scaling up: lessons from the field focus area, and the Community and Leadership Programme components. On the final morning of AIDS 2006, each team will present a final summary in the rapporteur summary session. This session will summarise and synthesise the presentations made during the week, focusing on critical issues addressed, important results presented and key recommendations put forward. In addition, the rapporteur teams will publish daily reports with highlights from the previous day’s activities in the AIDS 2006 newspaper.