IAS President’s Award
Biennial prize

The IAS President’s Award aims to recognize the achievements of an individual who demonstrates a long history of leadership and excellence as pioneers or advocates at the forefront of the response to HIV and AIDS. The award highlights an individual’s contribution that results in increased knowledge, skills, creative solutions or evidence-based policies and programmes to enhance the global response to HIV.

The IAS President’s Award is recognition award with no monetary value. The prize consists of a statue and a certificate setting forth the reasons for the award.

To be eligible for the award, the individual must meet the following criteria:

• The individual must be nominated by two or more members of the IAS Governing Council from at least two regions.
• The nominee demonstrates a long history of leadership and excellence as a pioneer at the forefront of the response to HIV and AIDS.
• The nominee demonstrates contributions to fostering of dialogue and debate that results in increased knowledge, skills and creative solutions in the response to AIDS.
• The nominee demonstrates throughout their career that they act as a strong advocate for implementation of effective, evidence-based policies and programmes which enhance the global response to AIDS.

Previous prize winners

See the list of winners from previous years.