Category: Cure Language

By Theresa Rossouw, MD, PhD, Johanna Crane, PhD, and Lisa Frenkel, MD Finding a cure for HIV has become the holy grail of HIV research. Fueled by the success of the “Berlin patient”, clinicians and researchers rushed to declare an … Read more

By Barbara Kingsley In this post, we hear from Barbara Kingsley, an HIV-positive individual in South Africa, about her experience with HIV and what a cure would mean for her and for South Africa.   Barbara works with the Positive Heroes … Read more

By Qingyan Ma, PhD In this interview, we hear from Dr. Linghua Li, an infectious diseases specialist working on HIV cure research in China. Dr. Li has been engaged in HIV/AIDS field for nearly 9 years, focusing on opportunistic infections … Read more

By Stuart Rennie The question of whether to use the term ‘HIV cure’, ‘HIV remission’, or ‘HIV something else’ cannot be brushed aside as a superfluous linguistic issue. Words matter for everyone affected by HIV cure research: for researchers, prospective … Read more

Written by: Theresa Rossouw HIV is a devastating diagnosis. This is true even today, more than 30 years after the discovery of the virus. The reasons are complex but were probably best vocalized by Edmund White: “The AIDS epidemic … … Read more

By Joseph Tucker, MD, PhD HIV cure research has progressed substantially in the past five years, raising an important clinical question. How should physicians define HIV cure within clinical contexts? More specifically, HIV-infected individuals will gradually bring questions about what … Read more