. It wasn’t just about making the medicine; it was about keeping people connected to care in a world where stigma and legal barriers—like the rising HIV criminalization reported in 2025—threatened to undo decades of progress. Voices from the Field Among the attendees was a peer researcher who had aged out of his adolescent program to become a navigator. To him, the conference wasn't just about the viral suppression rates or the debates over sterilizing vs. functional cures . It was about the "Road to Rio"—the initiative leading into
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