Guangzhou, China

The primary focus of the Guangzhou searcHIV team has been to conduct stakeholder interviews. Prior to conducting stakeholder interviews, Qingyan Ma and Zachary Rich finished landscape mapping of the stakeholders. Together they have interviewed more than fifty stakeholders including HIV infected individuals, HIV clinicians, Guangzhou CDC staff and local NGO leaders. As they wrap up conducting interviews they are now conducting preliminary analysis of the interviews. Based on the data they gathered, Qingyan is going to draft a paper about the cultural meaning of HIV cure in China and another paper about stakeholder analysis of acceptable risk for clinical trials of HIV cure. Zack is working on a project investigating treatments advertised online as being able to cure HIV. There is increasing HIV cure research in Guangzhou, including impending HIV cure clinical trials and the cure research of integration of Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Qingyan and Zack will continue their work as the HIV cure research goes on in Guangzhou.

Guangzhou site-based research team

• Joseph Tucker, searcHIV Co-Principal Investigator
• Andrew Babbit
• Qingyan Ma
• Xin Pan
• Zachary Rich
• Feng Wu

Guangzhou blog posts

• A Summary of Wu et al.’s Article: “Overcoming HIV Stigma”
• Perceptions of HIV cure among people living with HIV in Guangzhou, China: a qualitative study
• A TCM cure for malaria, a Nobel Prize, and an HIV cure
• HIV Remission: One Drug or Two?
• The 2015 Guangzhou HIV Cure Symposium
• China Steps Up Investment in HIV Cure Research, Supporting 2M USD Gene Editing in Search of an HIV Cure in Shenzhen
• From Cancer Cure to HIV Cure
• The Role of Social Relationship in HIV Healing and its Implications in HIV Cure in China
• HIV Cure Research in China: An Interview with Dr. Linghua Li 
• A Conversation with Joe Tucker, searcHIV Principal Investigator