By: Meredith Blumberg On September 25th, the 2017 PrEP Summit was held at the JB Duke Hotel in Durham, NC. The event was co-hosted by the UNC and Duke Centers for AIDS Research (CFARs). This summit served as an … Read more
By Karine Dubé, David Palm and Jeff Taylor Carl H. June, MD delivered the keynote speech at a University of Washington conference on engineered T cells for cancer and HIV. Dr. June is the Richard W. Vague Professor in … Read more
By Karine Dubé The International AIDS Society (IAS) 2017 conference was held in Paris, France in July 2017. A HIV Cure and Cancer Forum took place before the conference to explore the interconnectedness of HIV and cancer … Read more
By Karine Dubé Every year, before the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infectious (CROI), HIV treatment and cure advocates gather to discuss updates around HIV cure science. Highlights from the CROI 2017 Community HIV Cure Research Workshop are below. Maureen … Read more
By Karine Dubé The 2016 Women’s Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS (WRI) meeting took place in Palmetto Bluff, Bluffton, South Carolina from December 1 – 4, 2016. The theme for this year’s meeting was: Women in HIV Cure Research: Advocating … Read more
The NIH Strategies for an HIV Cure Symposium in Bethesda, MD from November 14-16, 2016 marks the inaugural organizational meeting for six research sites that were awarded funding by the NIH to be a part of the Martin Delaney Collaboratory … Read more
By Karine Dubé The National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) hosted its most recent HIV cure strategies meeting from November 14 – 16, 2016. The purpose of the workshop was to facilitate and foster collaboration across the new … Read more
By Karine Dubé and Joseph D. Tucker The ‘Towards an HIV Cure’ initiative of International AIDS Society (IAS) has released its 2016 global scientific strategy towards an HIV cure. This second edition of the strategy updates the initial strategy released … Read more
By: Meredith Blumberg, 2BeatHIV Intern, UNC-CH Health Policy and Management Major I love watching TED Talks; I find it fascinating to learn about such varied, yet similarly inspirational, topics through short presentations. However, my past viewing of TED Talks had been … Read more
By: Jennifer Hendrix, 2BeatHIV/searcHIV intern, NCCU student The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Area Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the 2BeatHIV Project co-hosted “Red for Cure”: A Forum on Black Women and HIV Cure on Saturday, February 27, 2016 … Read more
