By Martha Henry When “Treatment as Prevention” was named Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year in 2011, there was optimism that we were closing in on AIDS. Results published from the HPTN 052 trial that year showed that in discordant couples, giving antiretroviral treatment (ART) to people with HIV not only was good for their own health, but also lowered the levels of HIV in their blood to undetectable levels, making the…
World AIDS Day Symposium Thursday, December 1, 2016 8:00 – 9:30 am • Coffee & Breakfast Provided Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health • Kresge G2 In 2015, experts were caught off guard when an HIV epidemic exploded in a rural Indiana town. Prescription painkillers were being ground up and injected, often with shared needles, an easy route for HIV transmission. The U.S. is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid…
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