Weighing Risks and Benefits of HIV Cure Research: Perspectives of People Living with HIV (PLWHIV)
by Drs. Karine Dube and Joseph D. Tucker How do key stakeholders understand the risks and benefits associated with participating in an HIV remission research study? This was the core question asked in our team’s research study published in PLoS ONE. … Read more
Announcing New HIV Grant – Acute Infection: Lived Experiences and Ethical Challenges in HIV Research
by Adam Gilbertson, PhD The searcHIV and 2beatHIV teams are proud to announce funding for a new R21 grant led by our own Stuart Rennie and Adam Gilbertson. The focus of this project will be the ethical issues concerning HIV … Read more
CROI 2017 Community HIV Cure Research Workshop Highlights
By Karine Dubé Every year, before the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infectious (CROI), HIV treatment and cure advocates gather to discuss updates around HIV cure science. Highlights from the CROI 2017 Community HIV Cure Research Workshop are below. Maureen … Read more
Women’s Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS 2016: Zooming in on Women’s Contributions in HIV Cure Research
By Karine Dubé The 2016 Women’s Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS (WRI) meeting took place in Palmetto Bluff, Bluffton, South Carolina from December 1 – 4, 2016. The theme for this year’s meeting was: Women in HIV Cure Research: Advocating … Read more
HIV Cure Research Day
On Monday, December 12, the Durham County Board of Commissioners officially proclaimed December 14 as HIV Cure Research Day. Dr. Allison Mathews reflected on the importance of the day, “HIV Cure Research Day marks the one year anniversary of the … 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
Samantha Farley
Health Policy and Management Major University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill searcHIV/2BeatHIV Intern Class of 2019 salouise@live.unc.edu
Kimberly Knight
Kimberly M. Knight is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina. Currently, she’s pursuing her Master’s Degree in Public Health at Liberty University. She earned Bachelor’s Degrees from North Carolina Central University in Family & Consumer Sciences concentrating Family & Community … 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
2BeatHIV goes to TEDxDurham
By: Meredith Blumberg, 2BeatHIV Intern, UNC-CH Health Policy and Management Major I love watching TED Talks; I find it fascinating to learn about such varied, yet similarly inspirational, topics through short presentations. However, my past viewing of TED Talks had been … Read more