Is the cost of research aimed at curing HIV worth it, when HIV can be effectively managed and prevented by existing drugs?
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Until then we need to get effective, accessible treatment for all who need it, while deploying the many prevention tools at our disposal.
To get an effective vaccine for HIV/AIDS, scientists need to understand exactly how the virus works and immune system responds to it. African scientists have come one step closer.
Bill Gates, who has been identified as the world’s most significant donor in the fight against AIDS, shares his thoughts on the pandemic with Africa’s most prominent HIV/AIDS academics.
Curing HIV – or at least achieving long-term remission – is possible, under the right circumstances.
Although men make up two-thirds of HIV-related deaths, there are not enough services geared towards helping them.
Researchers have found a promising way of kicking the AIDS virus out of its hiding place in infected cells, potentially removing the main obstacle to curing HIV.
HIV therapy that enables patients with the virus to live a healthy life is a great success for modern medicine. But what are the challenges to coming up with a complete cure?
A recent survey of people living with HIV in the United Kingdom found that over half would participate in a clinical study to develop a cure for HIV despite this posing a risk to their health.
HIV has infected over seventy million people but only one of them has been cured: Timothy Ray Brown. An HIV-positive resident of Berlin, Germany, Brown developed relapsed leukemia in 2006. To treat the…
A second case of a baby who was ostensibly “cured” of HIV after early treatment has been discounted as a possible breakthrough in fighting the disease. The case of an Italian baby who relapsed after appearing…
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Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Melbourne Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne; Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Vice-Chancellor, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Virology & Infectious Diseases, University of Liverpool
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Honorary doctorate, Addis Ababa University
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Principal investigator, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Specialist Physician (Internal Medicine), UNSW
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Senior Research Officer, Burnet Institute
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Professor (conjoint), School of Women's & Children's Health, UNSW and previously Head, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and the HIV Service, Sydney Children's Hospital;, UNSW
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Former Head of the school of Public Health, Makerere University
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Professor, University of Jos
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Director for basic and translational science, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)