In the decades since the first AIDS cases were reported in Los Angeles and New York City in 1981, the epicenter of the nation’s HIV epidemic has shifted from urban… Read More
UNC to Test Injectable Long-Acting Implant to Prevent HIV
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new implantable drug delivery… Read More
PLOS Medicine Special Issue: Advances in HIV Prevention, Treatment and Cure
The editors of PLOS Medicine are delighted to announce a forthcoming Special Issue focused on HIV research, along with guest editors Drs Linda-Gail Bekker, Steven Deeks and Sharon Lewin. Submissions… Read More
Publication of HPTN 052 Final Results: HIV Treatment Offers Durable Prevention of HIV Transmission in Serodiscordant Couples
The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) announced that the final results of the HPTN 052 study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). This pivotal study demonstrated that antiretroviral… Read More
2BeatHIV Educates Public About HIV
Our understanding of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has come a long way since it was first named in 1986. Yet little of this new information about the virus, which still… Read More
UNC bioethicist addresses lack of HIV studies in pregnant women
UNC School of Medicine’s Anne Lyerly is addressing the urgent need for effective HIV prevention and treatment for the estimated 1.5 million women worldwide with HIV who give birth each year. With a… Read More
Early HIV Treatment Can Prevent Transmission to Uninfected Partners
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection provides consistent protection against the sexual transmission of the HIV virus from infected men and women to their HIV-uninfected sexual partners. These findings were announced… Read More
Dr. Margolis Featured in New Yorker Article on HIV Cure
The New Yorker recently featured the research of UNC School of Medicine researcher David Margolis, MD, in this article about the search for a cure to HIV infection. Margolis, a… Read More
UNC CFAR Investigators Featured at CROI 2015
Five abstracts from UNC CFAR have been accepted for presentation at the poster session at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2015, each of which were supported by… Read More
Friday ID Conference: “Complications of HIV Infection: It’s Complicated”
This talk is a part of our friday morning CFAR/IGHID Friday ID Conference Series. “Complications of HIV Infection: It’s Complicated” Frank Palella Jr. MD Northwestern University, Chicago, IL October 31, 2014… Read More
