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The search for a cure
The HIV/AIDS Activists Transformed Genetic Engineering

Over the past decade, a group of HIV activists has helped pioneer gene therapy.

Published
20 December 2018
From
The Atlantic
Treatment interruptions
Community Recommendations for Clinical Research Involving Antiretroviral Treatment Interruptions in Adults

Scientists working to develop a cure for HIV infection sometimes need to conduct clinical trials in which participants are asked to temporarily interrupt ART, which contradicts the recommendations and guidelines for people with HIV under medical care.

Published
15 November 2018
From
TAG
Clinical trials
How to evaluate PrEP and vaccines: urgency for next generation compounds

Several presentations at R4P 2018 looked at the new challenges of evaluating efficacy of new PrEP and vaccine candidates.

Published
05 November 2018
From
HIV i-Base
The search for a cure
STEPS V: HIV cure community workshop in Glasgow

STEPS, a community initiative to design the pathway to a long-term remission of HIV infection, has reached its 5th edition in Glasgow. This year the theme of the meeting that was held just before the opening of the HIV Drug Therapy Congress was ‘socio-behavioural science and ethics around HIV cure research’.

Published
01 November 2018
From
EATG
PrEP science
Boston HIV clinic sees 90% reduction in infections in people being prescribed PrEP

The Fenway clinic in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the first to institute a large pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) programme in the USA, has seen a reduction

Published
30 October 2018
By
Gus Cairns
Clinical trials
Making Clinical Trials of PrEP More Inclusive of Women, No Matter Their Pregnancy Status

Three new trials of HIV prevention drugs seek to answer directly a question that researchers inside and outside the field of HIV have explicitly avoided for years: How do drugs work -- and are they safe -- in pregnant and breastfeeding women?

Published
01 October 2018
From
The Body Pro
The search for a cure
Lymph node biopsies in individuals with acute HIV infection are safe and well-tolerated

Biopsies of lymph nodes in the groin, performed in the context of acute HIV infection, are safe and well tolerated, according to a Thai study published in

Published
27 September 2018
By
Alain Volny-Anne
Clinical trials
Meta-analyses were supposed to end scientific debates. Often, they only cause more controversy

Although the basic rules of the meta-analysis are simple, researchers must make many choices along the way, allowing conscious or unconscious biases to creep in.

Published
19 September 2018
From
Science
Clinical trials
FRESH program combines basic science with social benefits for women at risk of HIV

A program established by the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard is addressing the persistently elevated risk of HIV infection among young women in South Africa from two angles -- first, investigating biological factors that modulate infection risk and the early immunologic events following viral exposure, and second, alleviating the socioeconomic factors that limit opportunities for young women, the group at greatest risk in the region hit hardest by the HIV epidemic.

Published
16 September 2018
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Clinical trials
Half of Europe's clinical trials fail to report results despite EU rule

Almost half of all European-registered clinical trials - in which scientists test drug treatments, interventions or therapies in humans - have breached EU rules by failing to report results, according to an analysis published on Thursday.

Published
13 September 2018
From
Reuters
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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