Dr Reuben Granich MD, MPH of Switzerland is the Chair of the HIV Scientific Section of The Union; he also is the Representative of this Section to The Union Board of Directors. Dr Granich works as a Medical Officer at the Antiretroviral Treatment and HIV Care, HIV/AIDS Department World Health Organisation.

Dr Rod Escombe MD DTM&H PhD of the United Kingdom was awarded the 2009 Union Scientific Prize, which acknowledges a researcher less than 45 years of age for work on tuberculosis or non-tuberculous disease published in the past five years. Dr Escombe is a Honorary Research Fellow, Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine & Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunity, Imperial College London, UK. He received the award for his papers published in PLoS Medicine on natural ventilation for the prevention of airborne contagion, upper room UV light for prevention of nosocomial TB transmission and the infectiousness of TB patients co-infected with HIV.