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AIDS CONFERENCE IN VIENNA
International AIDS Conference in Vienna 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.

LET'S START TALKING ABOUT THE CURE AGAIN.
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.

Vote With Your Feet

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.

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APP Report

July 12, 2010
AIDS CURE RESEARCH FOR EVERYONE

  • The NIH spends only 3% of its AIDS Budget Trying to Find a Cure
  • Exciting New Research Being Ignored by the NIH?
  • An X Prize for a cure for AIDS?
  • The FIRST guide to AIDS cure research in plain English
  • Trust Us, It's Interesting!
AIDS PRIZE FOR BERLIN DOCTOR

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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)

GROUNDBREAKING TOWN MEETINGS

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.