2025 Edward H. Kass Lecture: Lessons From a Life in Epidemics

In IDWeek 2025’s Edward H. Kass Lecture, Judith Feinberg, MD, FIDSA, reflects on the treatments that were available for patients with AIDS in the early years of the epidemic, highlights the obstacles due to stigma that affect people with HIV and people with substance use disorder, and elaborates on several key treatments and effective prophylaxis interventions that emerged from early clinical research in HIV.