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To get an effective vaccine for HIV/AIDS, scientists need to understand exactly how the virus works and immune system responds to it. African scientists have come one step closer.
Bill Gates, who has been identified as the world’s most significant donor in the fight against AIDS, shares his thoughts on the pandemic with Africa’s most prominent HIV/AIDS academics.
Curing HIV – or at least achieving long-term remission – is possible, under the right circumstances.
Although men make up two-thirds of HIV-related deaths, there are not enough services geared towards helping them.
Researchers have found a promising way of kicking the AIDS virus out of its hiding place in infected cells, potentially removing the main obstacle to curing HIV.
HIV therapy that enables patients with the virus to live a healthy life is a great success for modern medicine. But what are the challenges to coming up with a complete cure?
A recent survey of people living with HIV in the United Kingdom found that over half would participate in a clinical study to develop a cure for HIV despite this posing a risk to their health.
HIV has infected over seventy million people but only one of them has been cured: Timothy Ray Brown. An HIV-positive resident of Berlin, Germany, Brown developed relapsed leukemia in 2006. To treat the…
A second case of a baby who was ostensibly “cured” of HIV after early treatment has been discounted as a possible breakthrough in fighting the disease. The case of an Italian baby who relapsed after appearing…
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Specialist Physician (Internal Medicine), UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor (conjoint), School of Women's & Children's Health, UNSW and previously Head, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and the HIV Service, Sydney Children's Hospital;, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Virology & Infectious Diseases, University of Liverpool
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Senior Research Officer, Burnet Institute
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Cape Town
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Principal investigator, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Professor, University of Jos
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Former Head of the school of Public Health, Makerere University
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Honorary doctorate, Addis Ababa University
