Devastating Funding Proposal Undermines the Global Fight Against AIDS by Coco Jervis A sense of disbelief washed over the global AIDS community last month when President Obama unveiled his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal to cut $563 million from the…
Merck’s Cavalier Attitude Toward the Welfare of HIV/HCV-Coinfected Patients by Tracy Swan In places where access to antiretroviral therapy is widespread, people living with HIV are now dying from a common and curable coinfection: hepatitis C virus (HCV). HIV increases…
by Richard Jefferys In the earliest days after the discovery of HIV in the mid-1980s, uncertainty reigned regarding how the immune system responded to the virus. Initially, it was thought that the time between HIV infection and the development of…
Reforming NIH AIDS Research, Boosting the Budget, and Revitalizing the Basic Science of HIV Infection by Mark Harrington On January 22, 2012, the Treatment Action Group marked its twentieth anniversary. Over the past two decades, we have helped to accelerate…
By Richard Jefferys February 2012 - Inaugurated in 2003, the bi-annual International Workshop on HIV Persistence during Therapy (aka “the persistence workshop”) is the brainchild of researcher Alain Lafeuillade. The meeting presaged the recent explosion of interest in pursuing a…
Broad, Brilliantly Coordinated Offensive Brings Sneaky Concession From Illinois' Rep. Porter Threats 'Far From Over' When the Republicans took charge of Congress in 1994 and liberal stalwarts like Ann Richards of Texas and Mario Cuomo of New York went down…
A Look Back at an Extraordinary Year for Basic and Clinical Research on AIDS -- and the Questions Raised Additional Surprises Expected The year 1996 witnessed seismic developments in AIDS research. On many fronts -- the basic and the clinical,…