Can We Treat Our Way Out of the AIDS Epidemic?

With no cure or vaccine in sight, HIV/AIDS remains a devastating epidemic, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where nearly 70% of new HIV infections occur. To curb HIV/AIDS, researchers have proposed a strategy to use drug treatment to decrease new transmissions so much that the epidemic eventually dies out. The concept requires changes in standards of when anti-retroviral therapy begins and who receives it. Could “treatment as prevention” prove to be the strategy to finally end the AIDS epidemic?

PANEL

Dr. Max Essex, Harvard AIDS Initiative
Dr. Kenneth Mayer, The Fenway Institute
Dr. Mark Wainberg, McGill AIDS Centre
Dr. Shahin Lockman, Harvard AIDS Initiative

World AIDS Day
Monday, December 1 – 12:30-1:30pm

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