April 2016 The Daily Telegraph article and examples of the media coverage that followed it: Cure for HIV possible within three years as scientists snip virus from cells– The Daily Telegraph, April 1, 2016. Update April 6, 2016: After receiving complaints, The Daily…
On Sunday February 21, 2016 in Boston, the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition, AVAC, European AIDS Treatment Group, Project Inform and TAG co-sponsored a community workshop on HIV cure research. The workshop has become an annual event that takes place immediately…
October 2015 Examples of media coverage: New Breakthrough May Lead to HIV Relapse Cure – Indo-Asian News Service, October 11, 2015 HIV breakthrough could lead to a CURE: Scientists identify markers on immune cells that ‘predict who can stop drug…
May 2015 Examples of media coverage: Gilead Sciences (GILD) May Have Found A Cure For HIV! – CNA Finance, May 18, 2015 This Experimental Drug Could Finally Cure HIV – Motley Fool, May 18, 2015 Original source: Unknown, possibly a…
March 2015 Examples of media coverage: FDA Gives HIV ‘Functional Cure’ Go-Ahead For Human Trials: Functional HIV Cure Step Closer To Reality With FDA Approval Of Clinical Human Trials – Medical Daily, March 10, 2015 Study of potential HIV ‘cure’ wins…
November 2014 Examples of media coverage: Primer Paciente “Curado” del VIH por un Trasplante de Sangre de Cordón Umbilical – El Mundo, November 6, 2014 Doctors “Cure” HIV Patient with Blood Transplant – Local: Spain’s News in English, November 6,…
November 2014 Examples of media coverage: French Scientists Find Mechanism for Spontaneous HIV Cure – Agence France-Presse, November 4, 2014 Scientists See Mechanism for Spontaneous HIV “Cure” (Update) – Agence France-Presse, November 4, 2014 HIV: Genetic Mutation Leads to Two Men…
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Worldwide governments, foundations, and companies invested US$676.7 million in research to develop new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics against tuberculosis (TB) in 2013—barely one-third of the US$2 billion that experts estimate the world must spend each year to end the global TB epidemic—according to an analysis released today by Treatment Action Group.
July 2014 Examples of media coverage: HIV “Cleared” in Two Australian Men after Bone-Marrow Transplants– Sydney Morning Herald, July 19, 2014 HIV Said Cleared in Two Bone Marrow Transplant Patients– Bloomberg News, July 18, 2014 Cancer Treatment Clears Two Australian Patients…