Knowledge That Saves Lives. Confidence That Changes Outcomes.
HIV APOLLO 2026
Advanced HIV Presentations
Develop the skills to recognize, assess, and manage complex HIV cases with confidence in hospital and clinical settings.
Medical Education
Gain practical, evidence-based knowledge from experienced HIV specialists to strengthen your clinical decision-making and patient care.
Global HIV Health
Explore current HIV challenges and best practices from around the world to improve outcomes across diverse healthcare environments.
ABOUT US
Advancing Excellence in HIV Care
The HIV Apollo Course was founded to provide healthcare professionals with an opportunity to update and strengthen their understanding of HIV-associated opportunistic infections.
Designed by experienced HIV specialists and medical educators, the course combines practical clinical expertise with evidence-based learning to improve patient care and clinical decision-making.
HIV APOLLO COURSE 2026
Accreditation
HIV APOLLO 2026 IS HERE!
MASTER THE RECOGNITION AND MANAGEMENT OF HIV ASSOCIATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS
WHY TAKE HIV APOLLO 2026
Enhance your expertise with evidence-based learning designed by experienced HIV specialists.
World-Class Faculty
Learn directly from leading HIV specialists, educators, examiners, and clinicians with decades of frontline experience.
Evidence-Based Education
Access current best practices and practical approaches to managing HIV-associated opportunistic infections.
Clinical Confidence
Gain the skills and confidence needed to manage challenging HIV presentations effectively.
Stay Current With Best Practice
Keep up to date with the latest evidence, guidelines, and developments in HIV medicine.
Clinical Confidence
Gain the skills and confidence needed to manage challenging HIV presentations effectively.
Advanced HIV Presentations
Benefit from faculty experience spanning the UK, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, and diverse healthcare settings.
Meet The FACULTY
Meet the dedicated professionals whose knowledge, experience, and dedication shape everything we do.
Dr Nashaba Matin
Consultant in HIV Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust and HIV Apollo course director
Dr Nashaba Matin
Consultant in HIV Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust and HIV Apollo course director
Dr Simon Rackstraw
Consultant HIV Physician, Barts Health NHS Trust and HIV Apollo course Education faculty
Dr Simon Rackstraw
Consultant HIV Physician, Barts Health NHS Trust and HIV Apollo course Education faculty
Dr Subathira Dakshina
Consultant in HIV Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust and HIV Apollo course Education faculty
Dr Subathira Dakshina
Consultant in HIV Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust and HIV Apollo course Education faculty
HIV APOLLO 2026 SPONSORS
We are very grateful to our sponsors for their support with HIV Apollo course logistics including venue hire and catering.
Course content and educational goals remain wholly under the control of the HIV Apollo Faculty
frequently asked questions
This course is suitable for all health care professional who are involved in the clinical management of patients who present with advanced HIV and opportunistic infections.
Each year we have a wide range of professionals register to attend the course – including pharmacy, nursing colleagues and medical doctors (consultants and resident doctors) working across ID and GUM/HIV specialties.
This course takes place annually at an East London venue. It is a 1 day face to face course and its inaugural course was held in June 2025.
The HIV Apollo course receives funding from pharmaceutical companies to run this course. The funding provides logistics, catering support for the delegates. The course organisers retain full control over the course content and educational aspects of the course.
Delegates pay a token fee to register for the course to avoid no-shows and enable course logistics and catering to be organised.
HIV Apollo provides travel bursaries to 10 delegates. The delegates must register for the course, and live more than 100 miles from central London. The value of the bursary is £150.
The topics covered are focussed on presentations related to advanced HIV and opportunistic infections. Examples such as Renal crises in HIV, Neurological infections in advanced HIV and Heamatological syndromes in ddvanced HIV have been covered.
Dr Nashaba Matin is the course founder of the HIV Apollo course. Dr Subathira Dakshina and Dr Simon Rackstraw are part of the Education Faculty that help to organise the course each year. All three are experienced HIV Medicine consultants based at Barts Health NHS Trust in London, UK. The HIV service based at Barts Health is one of the largest HIV services in Europe and provides in-patient support to a large part of London and the surrounding counties.
The Greek god Apollo is known as the god of music, dance and archery as well as the god of healing and disease. Hence this course is named the HIV Apollo Course.
To demonstrate the over-arching aim of the course which is to tackle disease and ill-health and enable people living with HIV to live healthily and enjoy life into old age.
The booking link is released each year in March for the June course. In 2025 the course was on Friday June 13th 2025, in 2026 the course is on Friday June 19th 2026.
Yes – the delegates are provided with morning coffee and afternoon tea, a full lunch is provided and a wine and cheese networking reception at the end of the day.
testimonials
HIV APOLLO 2026
This course is designed for clinicians from all professional groups, working in clinical settings who are involved in admitting and caring for patients with advanced HIV and opportunistic infections.
Very nice course and well organised.