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

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

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

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

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

By Karine Dubé The IAS 2015 meeting held in Vancouver, Canada in July 2015 was a reminder that we need to exercise caution about any claims of HIV cure. Below are the major HIV-cure related research highlights that are particularly … Read more

We continue our series profiling members of searcHIV and others involved in HIV cure research with an interview with Gail Henderson. Dr. Henderson is Professor of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University … Read more

In this post we hear from a member of the searcHIV Cape Town Team about the making of a short film for stakeholder engagement focusing on HIV prevention, treatment, and cure. “I Have a Dream… A World Without HIV” – Making … Read more

On Monday May 11, 2015, UNC-Chapel Hill announced a new partnership with GlaxoSmithKline to create a dedicated HIV cure research center on campus and a jointly owned company, QURA Therapeutics, whose mission is to create a cure for HIV/AIDS. The … Read more

We continue our series profiling members of searcHIV and others involved in HIV cure research with an interview with Stuart Rennie. Stuart Rennie is a bioethics researcher and one of the Principal Investigators on the NIH grant funding the searcHIV … Read more