Dr Luiz Loures

Title: Ending AIDS by 2030 : an achievable goal

Dr Luiz Loures, Deputy Executive Director of Programme of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations

Dr Luiz Loures joined UNAIDS in 1996 and was appointed Deputy Executive Director of Programme and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in January 2013. He leads UNAIDS’ efforts in leveraging critical support to countries to meet 2015 global AIDS targets and establish a sustainable response to AIDS. Dr Loures is a medical doctor with nearly 30 years of experience in the AIDS response. His engagement ranges from providing medical care to people living with HIV in the early days of the epidemic, to his dynamic involvement in global policy framework development.

Born, raised and educated in Brazil, Dr Loures completed his medical studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, specializing in critical care. He holds an MPH degree from the University of California at Berkeley.