Research aimed toward curing HIV infection by ridding the body of the virus or teaching the immune system to keep the virus under control without the need for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs—what some refer to as a “functional cure”—is beginning to bear fruit. Though still in the…Read More
Category Archives: HIV cure advocacy
December 12, 2012
Progress and controversies in HIV cure research
I just returned from one of the most fascinating and promising conferences on HIV cure research that I’ve ever attended. Held November 28 to 30 in Washington, D.C. the Division of AIDS from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored a meeting that brought together many…Read More
A cure for HIV will be essential to ending the AIDS pandemic, but science that is focused directly on a cure is still in early stages and will likely require the support of multiple stakeholders to proceed at the fastest pace. Â A day before the opening…Read More
Project Inform strongly applauds the announcement by the California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) of $11.8 million in funds to study two exceedingly promising new HIV prevention and care strategies: pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and testing and linkage to care plus treatment (TLC+). CHRP announced April 17 that…Read More
March 19, 2012
Building an Activist Agenda to Cure AIDS
A couple of months ago a rag tag group of activist–including Project Inform (represented by myself), the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition (ATAC)–reached out to some of the world’s leading HIV researchers and companies working on HIV cure research and asked…Read More
December 5, 2011
A Primer on What’s Up With Cure Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it has awarded three grants named in honor of Project Inform’s founder, Martin Delaney, totaling $14 million per-year for up to five years to focus on HIV eradication efforts. The Martin Delaney Collaboratory was formed by Anthony Fauci—the…Read More