News Archive

FEB-22-12  Registration and abstract submission are now open for the 14th International Workshop on Co-morbidities & Adverse Drug Reactions in HIV.  Click here to read more.

FEB-02-12 Please consider lending your name to a position statement to congress condemning the December 2011 reinstatement of the U.S. Congressional ban on the use of federal funds to support needle and syringe programs (NSPs). Scientists are especially encouraged to sign. Click here to learn more and to sign the petition. 

FEB-02-12  The 2012 HIV Diagnostics Conference will provide an opportunity for participants to share their experiences with 4th generation antigen/antibody assays and data generated with this new HIV-1/2 diagnostic testing algorithm. The 2012 conference will be held December 12-14 at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, GA.  For conference updates and information on abstract submission, registration, scholarships and vendors. please visit http://www.hivtestingconference.org.

JAN-30-12  The Forum is proud to announce Medscape's recent launch of the new "Improving Care for Patients With HIV Infection: Performance Improvement CME." This is the most recent development in the TREAT (Test, Refer, Engage, ART Initiation, Treatment Over Time) Initiative, our ongoing collaborative effort with Medscape and HealthHIV.  Read more. 

JAN-26-12  Kaiser Permanente announced today the Kaiser Permanente HIV Challenge to help health care providers nationwide improve health equity for people living with HIV by increasing access to HIV care and improving health outcomes.

DEC-14-11 Dr. Robert Grant, Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, and Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, lead investigator of the iPrEx study is featured in TIME Magazine's "2011: The People Who Mattered."  Click here to see the full story.

DEC-01-11  Last Thursday at the World AIDS Day event at George Washington University, President Obama renewed the US commitment to "end the AIDS pandemic once and for all."  The President's speech echoed that given by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just a few weeks earlier in which she announced that creating an AIDS-free generation is now a policy priority of the U.S. government for the first time in history.  President Obama cemented that commitment by specifying domestic funding pledges and global goals. 

NOV-09-11  Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that creating an AIDS-free generation is now a policy priority of the U.S. federal government for the first time in history.  Speaking before the National Institutes of Health, Secretary Clinton outlined new priorities for the U.S. global AIDS program, emphasizing a treatment as prevention approach.  To watch the speech and see the full transcript, click here.  

NOV-07-11  Forum Director Veronica Miller and Deputy Director Jur Strobos will be teaching a course for the UC Berkeley School of Public Health for the Spring 2012 semester entitled "US Food and Drug Administration, Drug Development, Science and Health Policy."The course will provide an in depth consideration of the major issues in drug development focusing on the US Food and Drug Administration laws, regulations and guidance and using HIV/AIDS exemplary.  Click here to access to course syllabus.

NOV-07-11 The current Issue of the Annals of the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research contains the recently released report “Municipal Scale-up of HIV Testing in the United States: Current Status, Challenges and Opportunities from a Multi-Stakeholder Perspective ”