Advancing an HIV Cure – What is Needed?

December 14, 2023 @ 11:00 am et - 12:30 pm

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The HIV epidemic continues to have a tremendous impact on global health. While we have made enormous progress in making antiretroviral therapy available to many people living with HIV, we are still not capable of eliminating infection. Consequently, people with HIV must commit to expensive, lifelong therapies; continuous monitoring; and they face drug toxicities and chronic immune activation. There is thus an urgent need to develop safe, affordable, and globally accessible curative strategies. Currently, we do not know what integrated interventions are needed to achieve durable HIV control. Additionally, we do not have a comprehensive understanding of contextual barriers, facilitators, and perspectives of stakeholders for implementation. Finally, while HIV cure research slowly becomes more mainstream in high income countries, Africa runs the risk of being left behind.

In follow up to World AIDS Day 2023, FCAA and Aidsfonds hosted an exciting 90-minute panel discussion to explore how funders, researchers, communities and other stakeholders can work equitably in the interests of developing an HIV cure for all, as soon as possible.