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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.

SEP-23-11 Associate Medical Director, Virology at Abbott Laboratories joins Forum EC.

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 30^th 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.

SEP-19-11 The first in a series of interviews with staff members of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), responsible for the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program, Science Speaks sat down the Dr. Caroline Ryan. To read the interview, click here.

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.

MAY-31-11 HIV specialist and leading infectious diseases physician John G. Bartlett, MD, doesn’t mince words when you ask him about what his AIDS patients faced in the early days of the epidemic. Click here to read the full interview on IDSA Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks: HIV & TB News" blog.

MAY-10-11 Recently, Forum EC member Christine Lubinski and other Forum colleagues met recently with Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown. 

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.

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.

MAY-10-11 HIV Forum Executive Committee member Judith Aberg, MD, has been appointed Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology in the New York University Department of Medicine.