The AIDS Policy Project is attending the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, including a special Reservoirs Workshop which will focus on a cure, starting Thursday, July 15 (note early date). We are blogging about AIDS cure research and other issues at the Cure Blog.
We will be tweeting separately and updating our Facebook page.
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Outside medical research
circles, the idea of a cure for AIDS is rarely seriously
discussed. Instead, AIDS is described as a "chronic,
manageable disease." Try telling that to one of the 22
million Africans now suffering from it. Or the American
who died of AIDS-related complications last week.
A cure for AIDS is at least as important as the next
promising AIDS drug, a vaccine, or a microbicide. But
unlike other essential therapies, viral eradication—a
cure for AIDS—is not supported by a special NGO
or a dedicated department at the NIH.
There are no editorials in The New York Times calling
for more research into HIV eradication. There is no annual
research update that can be accessed by the general public,
even though millions of lives are affected. Even though
researchers are making important progress.
A cure could reduce US government AIDS spending by $20
billion or more per year, or by 2/3 of the entire annual
budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
We have a plan.
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Join us to change
the rules about the way people think about the
AIDS pandemic and the way that people with AIDS
are treated. We are re-introducing the word "cure" into
the public discussion about AIDS research. We pressure
policymakers to save lives around the world whether
through medical research or public health policy.
We educate, we lobby, we rally: we are not silent.
We need your help and the help of your friends
and colleagues.
Contact info@aidspolicyproject.org for
information about how to join us.
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Gero Hütter, MD, the Berlin physician who performed the historic stem cell transplant in 2007 that has to date functionally cured an American patient with HIV/AIDS, was honored by San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and the AIDS Policy Project on the steps of San Francisco City Hall (June, 2010)
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In February, 2010, the AIDS Policy Project hosted the first two open scientific updates on AIDS cure research in at least a decade. Town meetings are now being planned in other cities.
Speakers included:
Romas Geleziunas, PhD
San Francisco HIV researcher
and physician presented an overview of the current state of research into a cure for AIDS and gave a report back from the St. Martin meeting, a recent conference on HIV eradication
David Margolis, MD
Noted researcher in the field of HIV eradication from the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven Deeks, MD
San Francisco HIV researcher
and physician
Rick Loftus, MD
San Francisco HIV physician
Sponsored and Organized by The AIDS Policy Project. The February 4 meeting was co-sponsored by Project Inform.
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