Congress Asks Watchdog Agency to Report on NIH's Allocation of Scarce Research Dollars Funding "frighteningly inadequate" In the face of criticism that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unfairly favored certain diseases -- particularly AIDS -- in its yearly…
Joint TAG-AmFAR Scientific Think Tank Assembles Eradication Experts for Marathon Brainstorming Session Tissue samples could be key The Treatment Action Group and the American Foundation for AIDS Research held a groundbreaking scientific workshop 2/27-3/1 on clearing lingering reservoirs of HIV…
TAG Policy Director and Recent McArthur Fellow Warns Against Premature Declarations of Victory Mark Harrington, propelled further into the limelight by his recent selection as a recipient of a McArthur ‘genius’ award, has been out on the lecture circuit of…
U.S. and French Investigators Alike Are 'Shocked, shocked' to Learn of Maintenance Protocol's Failure Might the Brits get it right? First it was kidney stones. Blood in the urine. Hyperbilirubinemia. Yellowed whites of the eyes. An unquantifiable array of quality-of-life…
Long Languishing in Shadow of the Antiviral Quick Fix, Immune Based Therapies Are Called to Center Stage How to refortify the immune system The twilight of eradication may herald a new dawn for HIV immunology research, which has been largely…
CDC/Thai Vertical Transmission Results Silence Critics and Pave Way for Prevention of Millions of Infections Worldwide But who will bear the cost? Four years ago, results of ACTG 076 showed that HIV-infected pregnant women treated with a complex regimen of…
Tantalizing Research Paper Contemplates The Restoration of HIV-Specific 'T-Help' After HAART ‘An argument for immediate therapy?’ The hallmarks of HIV infection and AIDS are a gradual deterioration of the immune system and the subsequent development of opportunistic infections that debilitate…
Laboratory Purists and Renegade Empiricists Duke It Out Over How to Proceed with Vaccine Development Efforts Current Products ‘Certain to Fail’ Although significant scientific hurdles continue to impede progress toward the development of an ideal HIV vaccine candidate, a number…
As All the World Drools Over Triple HAART Hype, Low Key Dual Combo Appears First to Achieve the Unimaginable The first cure? In a recent issue of Nature Medicine, a group of immunologists make two obvious but rarely discussed observations…
Infectious HIV Persists After Up to 2 1/2 Years of Triple Drug Therapy, Due to a Non-Decaying 3rd Compartment Its the immune system after all. Can HIV be eradicated from a human host? Can currently available combination therapy approaches eliminate…