Research for a Cure

Introductions

For an introduction to the latest developments in the search for a cure, see Project Inform’s A Primer on What’s Up With Cure Research.

For introductions from an activist perspective, see:

• AIDS Policy Project’s It’s Time for a Cure factsheets (in English and Spanish), as well as the longer AIDS Cure Research for Everyone: A Beginner’s Guide to How It’s Going and Who’s Paying for It
• Treatment Action Group’s What We Need to Cure AIDS, as well as the longer Report and Commentary from the Fifth International Workshop on HIV Persistence during Therapy

For recent mainstream media coverage of the search for a cure, see the New York Times’s New Hope of a Cure for HIV.

For more news stories, regularly updated, see Treatment Action Group’s Cure Resources page, with news reports from community-based organizations, the mainstream media, and scientific publications.

For more about the Berlin Patient, see:

• The website of Timothy Brown (a.k.a. the “Berlin Patient” himself)
• New York Magazine’s The Man Who Had HIV and Now Does Not

• TheBody.com’s The “Berlin Patient” and a Cure for HIV: Advocates, HIVers and Community Members Weigh In
• The New England Journal of Medicine’s report on Brown (very technical) Long-Term Control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 Stem-Cell Transplantation

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Cure Research

For a detailed report on the state of cure research, see the HIV-Cure Related Clinical Research Workshop report, prepared by the AIDS Policy Project, the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), Project Inform, and the Treatment Action Group.

The International AIDS Society has a webpage called Towards an HIV Cure: Global Scientific Strategy with:

• Info on the International Working Group for a cure
• The Rome Statement for an HIV Cure, which anyone can sign
• Conference information, calls for papers, grant information, and more

Other organizations working on the cure and their relevant websites are:

• The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – HIV/AIDS Cure
• amFAR’s page – Research Consortium on HIV Eradication
• AIDS Research Alliance page – Cure Research
• Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)’s page –  Webcasts and Podcasts
• The Delaney Cell and Genome Engineering Initiative (defeatHIV)’s Research Endeavors page

For regularly updated news, reports, conference papers, and more, see TheBody.com’s HIV/AIDS Cure: Research page.

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Cure Conspiracy Theories

It’s an exciting time for cure research, but unfortunately belief in fake cures persists.

For some AIDS cure myths, along with explanations of why these cures are false, see:

• AVERT’s A Cure for AIDS page, which debunks 21 fake cures, with some good information on the origin of these myths
• AIDS.gov’s Cure Myths page, which debunks 4 cure myths, with links to examples of these mistaken beliefs
• TheBody.com’s page addressing false beliefs around access to a real cure, Isn’t it true that drug companies are withholding the cure to make money?

For more about HIV/AIDS myths (with the truths to counter the myths!), see the AIDS Library’s HIV Myths page.