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- Reinvigorating the Search for a Cure
The International AIDS Society (IAS) held a workshop titled “Towards a Cure: HIV Reservoirs and Strategies to Control Them.” The workshop was a high-profile illustration of the reinvigoration of the research effort toward curing HIV infection.
- Microbicide Field Wrestles With the Implications of Success
In July of this year, the stubborn persistence and commitment of microbicide researchers, advocates, and trial participants was finally rewarded with positive results from a South African trial of the gel form of the antretroviral drug tenofovir (trade name Viread).
- Access to Hepatitis C Treatment: A Global Movement Gains Momentum
For several years, a few activists have been pushing for global access to treatment for HCV. Although HCV treatment remains unaffordable, momentum for global access to such treatment is building.
- Deadly Economics Threaten Progress to Global Health Goals
Despite public statements by world leaders that they remain committed to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they fail time and time again to put the necessary financial resources on the table to realize them.
- National Institutes of Health Donates Protease Inhibitor Patent to UNITAID Medicines Patent Pool
On September 30, 2010 the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) became the first research funder to license intellectual property rights to the Medicines Patent Pool essential to manufacturing anti-HIV protease inhibitors.
- AIDS Drug Assistance Program in Crisis