The COVID pandemic has touched everyone, including people living with HIV. Co-founder of The Institute of Many, Nic Dorward, spoke to the new president of the International AIDS Society, Professor Sharon Lewin, in the lead-up to World AIDS Day 2022. They discuss the ongoing importance of a search for an HIV cure. The COVID pandemic…
HIV cure. Those two little words elicit such hope, expectation and frustration. This was the theme that ran through the series of presentations at the HIV and Sexual Health Conference in August 2022 in the session HIV Cure: All in the Mix – Bench, Beside, Community. Scientific HIV cure update After an energising global perspective…
Antiretroviral treatment (ART) has significant benefits for the health and quality of life of people with HIV. Despite this, a scalable effective cure remains a difficult challenge. We already know that HIV can hide in blood and tissue cells throughout the body. This virus can stay in a dormant state, capable of reactivation. This latent…
At the Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference, Dr Gordon Campbell discussed participant motivations and experiences from an HIV cure clinical trial with treatment interruption (ATI). Dr Campbell interviewed participants from the TITAN study. All were satisfied with their experience and most felt well during the study. Trust in the clinical research team was crucial to their participation and peace-of-mind. They…
A special session at the recent Australasian HIV/AIDS conference featured new research from the Kirby Institute. Dr Scott Ledger presented work on HIV gene therapy in mice. The results show blocking of both virus entry into cells and HIV production. He showed that a single stem cell treatment enabled mice to maintain CD4+ T cell…
A terrific session is planned for this year’s joint HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Conference on the Sunshine Coast. On Tuesday 30th August, a cross-track session will explore the current context, new developments and community experience of HIV cure research. The session will include contributions from diverse panellists from the community, basic science and clinical research,…
A breakdown of the Research priorities for an HIV cure: International AIDS Society Global Scientific Strategy 2021 The landscape of HIV care has dramatically shifted over the past few decades. What was once a terminal disease has been transformed by the immense efforts of people with HIV (PWHIV), community groups, researchers, and clinicians into a…
A cure to HIV remains elusive. HIV-infected cells survive in the body by avoiding the usual ways the immune system would clear them. By silencing all virus activity, including virus replication and the creation of new proteins, infected cells avoid virus-induced lysis and immune detection. Here is where the approach called ‘shock and kill’ comes…
The 24th International AIDS Conference takes place in Montréal, Canada and virtually from July 29th- August 2nd 2022. We have compiled a roadmap of events and sessions relating to HIV Cure, including a pre-conference on Pathways to an HIV cure. Thursday July 28 Pathways to an HIV cure: Research and advocacy priorities A 2-day pre-conference…
Sydney researchers have developed a way to sequence near-full-length HIV-genomes from viral particles in the blood. This new test is called the PRLS (plasma-derived RNA using long-range sequencing) assay. The test shows that many HIV particles contain defective genomes and are likely not infectious. Researchers can use the test to identify where the virus comes…
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Working together with researchers and clinicians at The Alfred, members of the community of people living with HIV in Victoria have been integral to progressing ...
