7th International HIV Persistence Workshop in Miami, FL
By Karine Dubé The 7th International HIV Persistence Workshop on during Therapy occurred in Miami from December 8 – 11, 2015. This meeting started occurring bi-annually in 2003 and historically has been centered on HIV reservoirs. HIV reservoirs had been described … Read more
Towards Multidisciplinary HIV Cure Research
by Joseph D. Tucker, searcHIV co-PI HIV cure research is moving forward around the world, increasing the need for a comprehensive research agenda that goes beyond clinical and basic science fields. This urgent need motivated the International AIDS Society to … Read more
4 Facts to Know as you hear more about #charliesheen #mattlauer #HIV #HIVcure #2BeatHIV
by Allison Mathews, PhD, post-doc for searcHIV and 2BeatHIV News broke this morning announcing that Charlie Sheen has disclosed his status as HIV positive. We at the 2BeatHIV Project want you to know that we are proud of Charlie Sheen … Read more
Reflections from the 2015 AMWHO Conference and HIV Cure Implications
by Samantha Farley, searcHIV undergraduate intern For university students like myself, the American Mock World Health Organization (AMWHO) Conference provided our first immersion into the world of public health and policy. AMWHO was established at UNC Chapel Hill in 2014 … Read more
A TCM cure for malaria, a Nobel Prize, and an HIV cure
By Qingyan Ma, PhD October 5, 2015 was a remarkable day in the history of science in China. That day, a female Chinese researcher, Youyou Tu, was announced as one of the winners for the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology … Read more
HIV Remission: One Drug or Two?
by Dr. Joseph Tucker, searcHIV Principal Investigator The quest to achieve HIV remission has identified a wide range of potential candidates to decrease the size of the HIV reservoir, including broadly neutralizing antibodies, vaccines, traditional Chinese herbs, and gene editing … Read more
Viewpoints from IAS: Community Aspects of HIV Research
by Marie Theunissen, community advocate in Cape Town, South Africa A cure for HIV has been a hot topic for a while and, prior to the results of the Mississippi baby, expectations of a possible cure has been contemplated by … Read more
The 2015 Guangzhou HIV Cure Symposium
By Qingyan Ma PhD The China-US HIV Functional Cure Symposium held September 8-9, 2015 in Guangzhou, China marked the first academic exchange on the scientific research of HIV cure between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and south … Read more
Why should we use social media to engage community members about HIV cure?
by Allison Matthews, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Recent technological advances in HIV research have reinvigorated the search for a cure. In order to ensure the equitable and successful implementation of a cure, we need to develop community engagement strategies that … Read more