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HIV Cure Research Day

2017 January 30

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

Meredith Blumberg

2016 October 19

Research Assistant searcHIV: Social and Ethical Aspects of Research on Curing HIV BSPH Graduate Health Policy and Management Department University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill meredith_blumberg@med.unc.edu

Allison Mathews

2016 October 19

Allison Mathews is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research interests include community engagement, the sociology of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, religion, HIV/AIDS, and social psychology. Her current research … Read more

Warren Whipple

2016 October 19

Research Specialist, UNC Center for Bioethics Research Ethics Program Manager, UNC TraCS ww@unc.edu

IAS 2016 HIV Cure Research and Community Highlights

2016 September 2

By Karine Dubé  The IAS 2016 meeting was held in Durban, South Africa in July 2016. The IAS 2016 Towards an HIV Cure Research Symposium included a social sciences panel for the first time and the main conference featured talks … Read more

HIV Cure and Health Policy

2016 May 23

by Joseph Tucker, MD, PhD and Adam Gilbertson, PhD HIV cure research has expanded by leaps and bounds in the past ten years. There is no doubt about the progress in terms of laboratory science and overarching strategies. But how … Read more

HIV and the “Truly Cured Child”

2016 April 14

by Catie Gliwa, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles Raul Necochea, Dept of Social Medicine, UNC School of Medicine Disease cures do not happen overnight. In most cases, there is a long period of research and trials; … Read more

CROI 2016 HIV Cure Research and Community Highlights

2016 March 17

by Karine Dube The CROI 2016 conference was held in Boston, MA from February 22 – 25, 2016. Relevant highlights include: The pre-CROI community HIV cure research workshop hosted on Sunday February 21, 2016: Dan Kuritkes presented on the tribulations … Read more

Altruism, ethics and HIV cure research

2015 August 12

by Jennifer Power, Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University Earlier this year, a UK-based survey of close to 1000 people living with HIV indicated that many respondents would be willing to take … Read more