Report from the NIH Strategies for an HIV Cure Symposium
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
Leprosy Cures and Patients’ Expectations
by Dr. Raul Necochea & Dr. Adam Gilbertson, Dept. of Social Medicine, UNC School of Medicine Cure research has long raised and troubled the expectations of people afflicted by infectious diseases. Prior to the 1940s, Hansen’s disease (leprosy) was an … Read more
Highlights from the NIH-Sponsored Workshop on HIV Cure in November 2016
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
International AIDS Society Releases 2016 Global Scientific Strategy Towards an HIV Cure
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
The Social Context of HIV Remission Amongst Infants: From Mississippi to South Africa and Back
Johanna Crane and Theresa Rossouw In March 2013 a group of physician-researchers made the startling announcement that a baby born in Mississippi had been ‘functionally cured’ of HIV (Persaud et al. 2013a). However, hopes that the discovery might indicate a … Read more
Stakeholder Engagement in HIV Cure Research: Normative and Practical Applications of Deliberative Approaches
Adriane Gelpi The rise of research to cure HIV has sparked calls for including stakeholder engagement as a part of this research. Stakeholders (including patients, community members, scientists, disease advocates, pharmaceutical representatives and government officials) have long played a pivotal … Read more
Social Media and HIV: A Systematic Review of Uses of Social Media in HIV Communication
Tamara Taggart, Mary E. Grewe, Donaldson F. Conserve, Catherine Gliwa, and Malika Roman Isler Background: Social media, including mobile technologies and social networking sites, are increasingly being used as part of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and treatment efforts. As … Read more
Employing Human Rights Frameworks to Define Government Obligations, Allocate Scarce Resources, and Engage Civil Society in Realizing Access to an HIV Cure
Benjamin Mason Meier, Adriane Gelpi, Matthew Kavanagh, Lisa Forman & Joseph Amon The HIV/AIDS pandemic has operationalized human rights for public health. Through the progression of HIV/AIDS policy, institutions of global health governance have looked to human rights in framing … Read more
“Exceptionally Desirable Material”: Leprosy Patients and Researchers at the Dawn of the Sulfone Age
by Raul Necochea When sulfone drugs proved effective at arresting leprosy infection and even reversing some of the disease’s effects in the early 1940s, a new stream of research began to flow, enabled by patients’ cooperation with researchers. While acknowledging … Read more
IAS 2016 HIV Cure Research and Community Highlights
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