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Geoff Garnett discusses the need for prevention, the need to take a long-term approach to fighting AIDS, the uncertainties and changes that lie ahead, and the importance and need for initiatives like aids2031.

Geoff Garnett is Professor of Microparasite Epidemiology at Imperial College London, where he is Theme Leader for Public and International Health and Director of a Masters Course in Epidemiology. His main area of research is the epidemiology and control of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Since 1990 Dr. Garnett has worked on the broad area of HIV and STI epidemiology, with projects on the demographic impact of AIDS; modelling sexual partner networks; and the epidemiology of HIV, gonorrhoea, syphilis, trichomoniasis, herpes-simplex virus (HSV) and human papillomavirus (HPV). Recent work has focused on the potential impact of HSV and HPV vaccines and the epidemiological consequences of antiretroviral treatments. Dr. Garnett has been an investigator on community randomised trials of HIV interventions in Zimbabwe and Peru, and has been involved in the design and analysis of a number of sexual behaviour surveys in developed and developing countries. As Chair of the UNAIDS Reference Group on Estimates, Models and Projections, he has played a part in developing the methods used in HIV surveillance globally.

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