Press Release - HIV Experts Propose New Pathway for Conducting Phase 3 Drug Trials
FEB-07-12 the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research has just released a new scientific paper that lays out a substantially different approach for conducting Phase 3 HIV clinical trials. Click here to read more.
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Press Release - Experts Warn Economic Downturn Could Stall Progress in Fighting HIV/AIDS Pandemic
OCT-18-11 As the world observes the 30th anniversary of HIV/AIDS, experts on the front lines in fighting the global pandemic are confronting a new and unexpected front in the war on this disease -the economic downturn, which has resulted in cuts to HIV prevention, care and treatment programs in the U.S. and poses a significant risk to HIV programs in resource-strained countries in the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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Press Release - National HIV/AIDS Summit on September 22 Will Honor Dr. Tony Fauci
SEP-20-11 The nation's war against
HIV/AIDS began 30 years ago with reports that young homosexual men began to die
from a new disease that was destroying their immune systems. But rather than simply
observe this important milestone, the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research is
using the 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic to convene a major policy
summit in Washington that will address the "unfinished business" of the HIV/AIDS
research community - determining how to match the significant progress in drug
discovery with the delivery of state-of-the-art care to every person infected
or potentially infected with HIV.
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Press Release - HIV Experts Create the Roadmap for Providing PrEP
AUG-24-11
To stem the estimated
2.6 million new HIV infections that occur worldwide each year, more than 200 representatives
from the scientific and HIV/AIDS communities took an important step in
assessing the safety and public health implications of providing antiretroviral drugs to uninfected men and women
exposed to HIV through sexual contact - a strategy called pre-exposure
prophylaxis, or PrEP.
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Press Release - Forum Annals Publishes Dr. Koop's Personal Account of the AIDS Controversy
MAR-30-11 Published in the March 29 issue of The Annals of the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, Dr. Koop's paper -- The Early Days of AIDS, As I Remember Them -- is based on what the former Surgeon General described as his "last major address" on HIV/AIDS, which was presented in Washington on November 18, 2010 at the 2010 National Summit on HIV Diagnosis, Prevention and Access to Care. With a foreword from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Koop's personal account chronicles the very real challenges facing the public health community at the beginning of the AIDS crisis and presents a candid assessment of how a small number of cases mushroomed into the AIDS epidemic of the late 1980s.
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Press Release - HIV Specialist Dr. John G. Bartlett, MD Named to the Forum's Leadership Team
MAR-10-11 Building on more than a decade of identifying and addressing emerging
issues in the prevention, care, and treatment of people affected by HIV/AIDS, Dr.
Bartlett's appointment brings valuable expertise and
new thinking to the Forum at a time when the organization is expanding its
mission to advance the research agenda in TB/HIV co-infection and the HCV.
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Press Release - Experts Create Roadmap for Accelerating the Development of Targeted HCV Therapies
DEC-14-10 WASHINGTON,
DC - To improve the care for individuals infected
with the hepatitis C virus, a major health problem and a leading cause
of chronic liver disease around the world, nearly 200 international
hepatitis experts have taken an important step in escalating the
introduction of a new class of targeted therapies for HCV --
direct-acting antivirals.
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Press Release: Experts at 2010 National Summit Warn of Need to Identify/Treat Undiagnosed Americans
DEC-01-10 WASHINGTON, DC - As the nation observes World AIDS Day, the consensus reached by nearly
400 HIV/AIDS experts taking part in the just completed 2010
National Summit on HIV Diagnosis,
Prevention and Access to Care provides this stern warning to the country's
policymakers: unless more is done to identify
and provide immediate care for the more
than 200,000 Americans whose HIV is undiagnosed and the even more who are untreated,
disparities in HIV care will only increase in the years ahead.
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Press Release - Epidemic of HIV Requires National Mobilization, Health Officials Warn
NOV-17-10 WASHINGTON, DC - With new projections that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection rates are increasing in some populations, former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop -- who charted the nation's policies on HIV/AIDS following the first deaths from AIDS in 1981 -- today issued a stern warning to the public health community: HIV/AIDS continues to be a major epidemic and requires a national mobilization to identify and provide immediate care for many Americans with HIV who remain undiagnosed -- an estimated 200,000 people. Strikingly, among HIV-infected adolescents, 50 percent are unidentified.
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Scientists, Advocates Call for Better Methods to Evaluate Increased Risk of CVD
JUL 19-10 Scientists, HIV Advocates Call for Better Methods to Evaluate the Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Persons with HIV. Two-Fold Increase in Risk May Be Directly Linked to HIV.
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