AIDS Cure Study Table
Richard Jefferys of the Treatment Action Group has done the hard work of putting together a useful table of AIDS cure studies. He was assisted in this task by Nelson Vergel (who first organized an online database), Robert Reinhard, and Lynda Dee of AIDS Action Baltimore. We compiled the first-ever…
The AIDS Policy Project Interviews Itself on the Melbourne AIDS Conference
AIDS Policy Project member Stephen LeBlanc travelled to Melbourne, Australia for the 2014 International AIDS Conference and a pre-conference symposium, "Toward a Cure," focused exclusively on AIDS cure research. During the conference, APP's Kate Krauss interviewed him; these are his impressions of the cure research presented. We will publish a short analysis of…
AIDS Cure Meeting in Philly October 18
The AIDS Policy Project is hosting an AIDS cure activist meeting on Saturday, October 18th, in Philadelphia, 12 noon to 3:00 pm. The meeting will be held at: The Cedar Works 4919 Pentridge Street Philadelphia, PA 19143 (Easy to get to on the 34 Green Line Trolley) We'll talk about…
APP releases new report
The AIDS Policy Project is proud to release it's latest report, For the Win: Finding a Cure Faster. The report delves into AIDS research funding, primarily through the National Institutes of Health, and points out how the current system can limit scientific advancement towards a cure. The report also highlights…
The Other Way to End AIDS
If you could raise $100 million for AIDS cure research -- just for the cure--would you do it? The Cure for AIDS Act was introduced into Congress last summer by a former banker from Connecticut. Rep. Jim Himes, formerly of Goldman Sachs, is a member of the House Financial Services…
The State of the Cure
The United States spends over $25 billion every year on AIDS programs worldwide. But we spend only $56 million to try to cure the disease. This might be understandable if curing AIDS were a distant hope. But one man was cured in 2007 and there is an international race on to…
Time to push for an AIDS cure!
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person cured of AIDS, often ends his talks by saying: "My dream is not to be the man who stands before you and says, 'I am cured,' but to be the man who stands before you and says, 'We are cured.' " Last week, a…
Why AIDS Activists (and You) Should Care about the NSA
Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and then Bart Gelman at The Washington Post revealed that the US government's NSA is tracking and logging what we say and do on the phone and online. But only the metadata--when we made the call, where we were calling from, and who we spoke to. And…
86 Organizations and Internet Companies Demand Congressional Committee to End NSA Spying
Today, a broad coalition of 86 organizations and Internet companies – including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, The AIDS Policy Project, and the American Civil Liberties Union – sent a letter to Congress demanding swift investigation and reform in light of the recent revelations about unchecked global surveillance. The…
Making history!
In April, I read about a plan at the University of Minnesota to try to cure a child of AIDS using a stem cell transplant. The child was suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He needed the risky transplant or he would die. Researchers planned to use a donor born resistant…