On Monday, December 12, the Durham County Board of Commissioners officially proclaimed December 14 as HIV Cure Research Day. Dr. Allison Mathews reflected on the importance of the day, “HIV Cure Research Day marks the one year anniversary of the … Read more

Research Assistant searcHIV: Social and Ethical Aspects of Research on Curing HIV BSPH Graduate Health Policy and Management Department University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill meredith_blumberg@med.unc.edu

Allison Mathews is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research interests include community engagement, the sociology of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, religion, HIV/AIDS, and social psychology. Her current research … Read more

Research Specialist, UNC Center for Bioethics Research Ethics Program Manager, UNC TraCS ww@unc.edu

By Karine Dubé  The IAS 2016 meeting was held in Durban, South Africa in July 2016. The IAS 2016 Towards an HIV Cure Research Symposium included a social sciences panel for the first time and the main conference featured talks … Read more

by Joseph Tucker, MD, PhD and Adam Gilbertson, PhD HIV cure research has expanded by leaps and bounds in the past ten years. There is no doubt about the progress in terms of laboratory science and overarching strategies. But how … Read more

by Catie Gliwa, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles Raul Necochea, Dept of Social Medicine, UNC School of Medicine Disease cures do not happen overnight. In most cases, there is a long period of research and trials; … Read more

by Karine Dube The CROI 2016 conference was held in Boston, MA from February 22 – 25, 2016. Relevant highlights include: The pre-CROI community HIV cure research workshop hosted on Sunday February 21, 2016: Dan Kuritkes presented on the tribulations … Read more

By MaryBeth Grewe, MPH; Tamara Taggart, MPH HIV is a common topic of discussion on many social media platforms, and increasingly, social media is being used as part of interventions promoting HIV prevention or treatment. We were aware of this … Read more

by Jennifer Power, Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University Earlier this year, a UK-based survey of close to 1000 people living with HIV indicated that many respondents would be willing to take … Read more