{"id":27,"date":"2011-06-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2011\/06\/on-thirtieth-anniversary-calls-for-hiv-cure-research-intensify.html"},"modified":"2011-06-07T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T08:00:00","slug":"on_thirtieth_anniversary_calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2011\/06\/on_thirtieth_anniversary_calls.html","title":{"rendered":"On thirtieth anniversary, calls for HIV cure research intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lucas Laursen<\/em><\/p>\n

Thirty years ago this month, scientists first reported the existence of AIDS<\/span>, and in the intervening decades researchers have focused steady efforts on prevention, long-term treatments such as antiretroviral drugs, and patient care. What has fallen in and out of fashion during that time is seeking a ‘cure’ for HIV<\/span>. That changed when scientists reported that they had cured one man of the virus through a bone marrow transplant (Blood<\/em> 117<\/b>, 2791\u20132799, 2011). But the circumstances of that 2007 transplant were unique, and researchers say they are uncertain about how to fund additional cure-directed research without cannibalizing other components of the global HIV<\/span>\/AIDS<\/span> research machine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s the tricky part,\u201d says Bertrand Audoin, executive director of the International AIDS<\/span> Society (IAS<\/span>), a Geneva-based HIV<\/span> research and education association. \u201cActually, to be honest, I’m glad it’s not for me to decide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By Lucas Laursen Thirty years ago this month, scientists first reported the existence of AIDS, and in the intervening decades researchers have focused steady efforts on prevention, long-term treatments such as antiretroviral drugs, and patient care. What has fallen in and out of fashion during that time is seeking a ‘cure’ for HIV. That changed when scientists reported that they had cured one man of the virus through a bone marrow transplant (Blood 117, 2791\u20132799, 2011). But the circumstances of that 2007 transplant were unique, and researchers say they are uncertain about how to fund additional cure-directed research without cannibalizing  … Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aids","category-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}