The steering committee provides guidance, leadership, and expertise to the working groups established by the Forum. It has twenty-three members from across the sectors and regions, including agency, civil society, academia, and industry. The primary goal of the steering committee is to discuss credible and convincing ways to demonstrate that a new intervention prevents transmission of HIV in a region where it would be transmitted in the absence of the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). (* Denotes Steering Committee co-chairs.)