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How HIV long-term survivors contribute to a better future for everyone

The Office of HIV and AIDS Malignancy at the National Cancer Institute coordinates cancer and HIV research.

Today, with better understanding of the complex task at hand, cure researchers are investigating multiple avenues and taking the long view.

The group focuses on treatment, research, policy and education around HIV and hepatitis C.

He supplied cadavers for medical training but was convicted of fraud and shipping hazardous materials.

For example: Hep C cures have meant fewer people to treat and fewer transmissions to potential patients.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis has an uncertain future among youth under 25.

Researchers will genetically engineer participants’ CD4 cells, disabling the attachment of the virus.

The announcement by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase has already disrupted the stock market. Here’s why.

A $3.4 million grant funds research about the HIV prevention pill in Milwaukee and Cleveland.

Cure studies typically require a temporary break in HIV treatment, often with little promise of a personal benefit to the participant.

The question is: Are officials allowed to share patients’ personal data for research and evaluation purposes?

Curing HCV in those coinfected with HIV provides the greatest chance to reduce the risk of death among those who have advanced fibrosis.

Even when HIV is fully suppressed, the virus is associated with as much as double the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

HIV researcher David Alain Wohl, MD, urges AIDS activists to be a vanguard against indifference, overreach and shortsightedness.

Among people with HIV who don’t have hepatitis C virus, various factors raise the risk of liver fibrosis (scarring) and fatty liver disease.