By Richard Jefferys At the recent International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. (AIDS 2012), the research effort to develop a cure for HIV infection attained a higher profile than it ever has in the past. At a press conference on…
Existing treatment and prevention techniques could prevent millions of new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS—but only if Obama sustains funding. By Mark Harrington This article was first published on 24 July 2012 in theAtlantic.com. Four years ago, President Obama's…
Before the Discovery of HAART By Mark Harrington And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. —Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”[i] This is the second in…
TAG at 20 – Part II: On a Darkling Plain—The Years of Despair; Only Stronger U.S. Leadership Can End the AIDS Epidemic; Cure-Related Research at AIDS 2012; The Future of TB in the United States: Going, or Growing?; Getting to Zero—Join the Movement!; GeneXpert Rapid TB Test Price Reduced in Historic Agreement
Over 3,500 people with HIV are on waiting lists for lifesaving antiretroviral drugs. Many more lack access because of other funding cuts and program restrictions. Congress and President Barack Obama must act now to make sure all persons with HIV…
By Mark Harrington 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. The patent pool is an…
By Coco Jervis and Sue Perez Over the last few years, G8 and other national leaders have lamented that health care systems in poor countries are inadequate to keep pregnant women, mothers, babies, and children healthy and that universal access…
By Tracy Swan Being a person living with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and an injection drug user, I look at my body. People want to treat my virus -- my immune system -- people want to treat my chest -- my…
By Richard Jefferys and Scott Morgan 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…
Slow Implementation for Needed Changes By Sue Perez and Coco Jervis After a century of failed efforts, decades of debate, and months of partisan rancor, this past March, Congress finally passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010…