The Long-Acting/Extended Release Antiretroviral Research Resource Program (LEAP) provides broadly based scientific support to accelerate the development of novel drugs, formulations, and technologies for the treatment and prevention of HIV and related epidemics. The Program serves as a focal point for the global conversation on the development of LA/ER formulations, and has brought many of the world's key stakeholders into this conversation. Established in 2015, LEAP is now poised to apply its acquired expertise to new challenges. During the next five years, we will leverage the infrastructure we have created to: 1) apply our scientific resources to identify and facilitate development of the most promising new drugs and drug delivery platforms in order to overcome the limitations of available products; 2) build upon our existing modeling and simulation expertise to develop better ways to more rapidly identify those approaches with the most desirable pharmacologic properties; and 3) expand the scope of LEAP to include diseases that overlap the HIV epidemic, where the availability of LA/ER drugs and formulations could most profoundly affect treatment and prevention – specifically, tuberculosis, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections. Expected outcomes include an increased number of new long-acting drugs and formulations in preclinical and clinical development, enhanced funding mechanisms to bring more such products into testing, and accelerated pathways for more rapid translation of laboratory-based research into clinical trials and eventual drug approvals.