2016 NATIONAL HIV PREP SUMMIT FINAL REPORT 1 The National HIV PrEP Summit (NHPS) was a new NMAC conference held December 3-‐4, 2016 in San Francisco. Like the conference’s logo, this meeting was a collaboration between community-‐based organizations (CBOs), health departments (HDs), national organizations, and NMAC. The meeting brought together HIV leaders to discuss and learn about Pre-‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and other biomedical HIV prevention interventions. The intent of NHPS was not to argue the science of PrEP. Instead, it focused on the implementation and infrastructure needed to turn the promise of the science into an effective community-‐level HIV prevention option. Conference Program Format The National HIV PrEP Summit was designed to be an interactive conference allowing participants and opportunity to have real conversations about PrEP and Biomedical Interventions. The program consisted of 27 workshops and 4 plenary sessions. The topics covered were education campaigns, priority populations, healthcare providers, research, training programs, program implementation, and public policy. The Summit sold out with 696 registrants. These registrants included PrEP users, medical professionals, health department officials, community administrators, researchers and federal officials. Gus Cairns wrote, “that the US National HIV PrEP Summit, one was of the most extraordinary HIV meetings I have ever been to.” He continued by saying, “this first-‐ever gathering of 600 people involved in PrEP (pre-‐exposure prophylaxis) provision in the USA (plus 25 non-‐US scholarship recipients, mainly from Europe) was already designed to be something different from the standard HIV ‘discover-‐test-‐treat’ conference. But fate then intervened to make it happen at an extraordinary time – in between the US election and Donald Trump’s inauguration. The election result totally changed the conference’s atmosphere and meaning. The PrEP summit was designed as an event of celebration and hope. Its structure, its speakers, even the way the plenary room was designed and the way the speakers dressed, all conveyed one message: we are all in this together, and PrEP really is the game-‐ changer we have been looking for. Plenary talks were given in the round, from a low stage in the centre of the room. So were panels, with discussants sitting in white designer chairs. Slides were shown, but in the corners of the room behind our heads, so people looked at the speaker instead.” “the US National HIV PrEP Summit was “one of the most extraordinary HIV meetings I have ever been to.” “The PrEP summit was designed as an event of celebration and hope.”