Cure
New Technology Can Track Dormant HIV Inside Cells
Understanding HIV latency and how to stop it is the key to finding a cure. People infected with HIV must follow a strict regimen of drug treatment to prevent the disease from progressing into AIDS. Treatment, however, does not cure HIV; it merely subdues the virus. If the patient stops treatment, the virus “wakes up” […]
HIV Drug Truvada’s Effectiveness Reaffirmed
Could we see the end of HIV/AIDS epidemic in our lifetime? Researchers are getting closer to a possible cure. Truvada, a drug that has long been used as treatment for HIV-positive patients, is also the first and only FDA-approved medication to prevent HIV. Researcher Robert Grant of the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes conducted a study that […]
The Beginning of the End of AIDS?
Diane Havlir is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the chief of the UCSF Division of HIV/AIDS and Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. She served as co-chair of AIDS 2012, the XIX international AIDS Conference.
Career AIDS Scientist Launches New Push Against CMV and Kaposi’s
The scourges of immune-compromised HIV patients have always included opportunistic, chronic infection with other viruses — among them the herpes viruses that cause Kaposi’s sarcoma and chronic cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Before antiretroviral therapy became effective and widely available in the United States, Kaposi’s sarcoma — a form of cancer — was common and sometimes a […]
UCSF’s Deeks a Guest on NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation’
UCSF’s Steven Deeks, MD, professor of medicine at the UCSF Division of HIV/AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and Trauma Center, spoke on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” on July 24, 2012 with host Neal Conan, discussing working toward a cure for HIV/AIDS.
Support for PEPFAR — Republican or Democrat? (video)
This is a snippet from an interview with Steve Morin in which he discusses what is behind the bipartisan support of PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. “PEPFAR enjoys strong bipartisan support for a number of reasons,” Morin said. “It responds to a humanitarian need, it is vital to some of our […]
HIV Reservoirs: Where and How is the Virus Hiding?
It is unclear which of the treatments that the “Berlin Patient” received were necessary and/or sufficient for what appears to be at minimum a clinical cure.
Timothy Henrich et al presented intriguing data from two HIV-infected patients who received reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for the treatment of relapsed Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
HIV Infection and Treatment May Hasten Diseases of Aging
Infection with the AIDS virus, HIV, appears to accelerate aging in many people, in many ways. UCSF researchers are exploring various facets of AIDS and aging. HIV infection no longer is a death sentence, unlike the last time the International AIDS Conference was held in the U.S. in 1990. As a result many baby boomers […]
U.S. Congress and the Global AIDS Epidemic
Bipartisan political support is central to the U.S. government’s domestic and international response to HIV/AIDS, and a special session devoted to this response was held at AIDS 2012 on Wednesday. Vivek Jain, an assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of HIV/AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH), offered the following report on the session: Former […]
