IAS 2017: HIV and Cancer Fields United in Dialogue to Accelerate Discovery in the Search towards ‘Sustained Virologic Remission’
By Karine Dubé The International AIDS Society (IAS) 2017 conference was held in Paris, France in July 2017. A HIV Cure and Cancer Forum took place before the conference to explore the interconnectedness of HIV and cancer … 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
Stakeholder Engagement in HIV Cure Research: Normative and Practical Applications of Deliberative Approaches
Adriane Gelpi The rise of research to cure HIV has sparked calls for including stakeholder engagement as a part of this research. Stakeholders (including patients, community members, scientists, disease advocates, pharmaceutical representatives and government officials) have long played a pivotal … Read more
Pluralistic Perspectives on HIV Cure in Africa: How Will Research Participants Interpret the C-word?
Keymanthri Moodley Background: Africa has a rich and contentious history of HIV cure approaches that range from mythology, cultural beliefs and religion to alternate and traditional medications. This history is set against a backdrop of political ideology, claims of post-colonialism, … 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
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
HIV Stakeholder Engagement through Film – perspectives on the production of the movie
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
A New CUREiculum Launched
Blog Post by Jessica Handibode and Karine Dubé The number of HIV cure-related publications has risen exponentially in recent years. This is due in part to a burst of funding and scientific interest around HIV cure research in the last … Read more
Stakeholder engagement in HIV cure research: Lessons learned from other HIV interventions and the way forward
By Ying-Ru Lo HIV, once a death sentence, has become a manageable chronic disease with the introduction of antiretroviral treatment two decades ago. This would not have been possible without the constant dialogue between scientists, policy makers, and AIDS activists. … Read more
Update on HIV Cure Research Training Curriculum
By Karine Dubé, Program Manager, Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication (karine_dube@med.unc.edu) A novel HIV cure research training curriculum is being launched in beta testing phase in the fall 2014. The HIV cure research curriculum is a collaborative project that … Read more