A Summary of Wu et al.’s Article: “Overcoming HIV Stigma”
By Alice Zhang People living with HIV (PLHIV) often face stigma that is multilayered and multifactorial. The stigma that they face can be associated with misconceptions about HIV, but it can also be linked to marginalized behaviors and identities. For … Read more
Perceptions of HIV cure among people living with HIV in Guangzhou, China: a qualitative study
By Qingyan Ma, PhD Bringing the voices of people living with HIV (PLHIV) into HIV cure research is critical to increase community engagement in clinical trial participation, enhance HIV treatment adherence, as well as improve psychosocial well-being of PLHIV. Therefore, … 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
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
China Steps Up Investment in HIV Cure Research, Supporting 2M USD Gene Editing in Search of an HIV Cure in Shenzhen
by Qingyan Ma PhD, UNC Project-China Money talks. It is certainly true for HIV cure research. In the report of the Global Investment in HIV Cure Research and Development 2014 published by the International AIDS Society (IAS) in July 2015, United … Read more
From Cancer Cure to HIV Cure
by Ni Gong, PhD Candidate, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China and Qingyan Ma PhD, UNC Project-China There has been more and more research on HIV cure recently. If HIV is cured, what change will it bring to … Read more
The Role of Social Relationship in HIV Healing and its Implications in HIV Cure in China
by Shan Qiao Shan Qiao, Jing-Bao Nie, Joseph Tucker, Stuart Rennie and Xiaoming Li just published an article titled “The role of social relationship in HIV healing and its implications in HIV cure in China” in Health Psychology and Behavioral … Read more
HIV Cure Research in China: An Interview with Dr. Linghua Li
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
A Conversation with Joe Tucker, searcHIV Principal Investigator
In our new series, we will be interviewing members of the searcHIV team and others involved in HIV cure research. We launch the series with an interview with Joe Tucker, a clinician and social scientist who is one of the … Read more