Word: hiv
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...nominate Dr. Tony Faucci for his significant contributions to understanding and treating HIV/AIDS. He delineated the nature of the immune defect in HIV infection, and his other demonstrations have identified the major obstacles to HIV's eradication...
...link of disease and poverty is proven,” said Agnes Binagwaho, another panelist and the executive secretary of Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission. To strengthen her claims, she presented maps that portrayed the size of continents based on malaria and HIV prevalence and deaths, along with income. Jim Y. Kim—a professor of medicine who worked with Partners in Health at its founding—moderated the event. Despite the gravity of the topics discussed, the mood was lightened by the wry and witty humor of the panelists—particularly Farmer...
...Basically, there is an extraordinary group of people who have been infected with HIV for up to 30 years and who have never gotten sick,” said Walker, who is the director of the Partners AIDS Research Center at the hospital. “The goal of this project is to figure out why that is and whether we can replicate that in other people...
Walker and his colleagues founded the International HIV Controllers Study in 2006 with a $2.5 million grant from Mark Schwartz ’76 and Lisa Schwartz, which currently involves more than a dozen countries...
...reality is that there are [HIV-infected] people walking around right now that have figured out someway to survive without need for medication,” Walker said. “There are answers that could be gleaned from these people that could have incredibly important implications...