uffa2 ha scritto:(...) una ricerca che magari cambierà le sorti dell'HIV (...)
Sarà certamente così! Infatti devo confessare che, pervasa dallo Spirito del Natale, ho appena scritto a POZ per protestare perché non hanno accluso il nome della Ensoli al loro elenco delle
"100 persone che stanno accelerando la fine dell'AIDS".
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The POZ 100-The Seekers
The International AIDS Society (IAS) Scientific Working Group on HIV Cure is a group of scientists and clinicians who have launched a new road map to ending AIDS. Their report “Towards an HIV Cure” outlines and prioritizes areas of research to reach that goal. Steven Deeks, who cochairs the working group along with IAS president Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, says the report’s larger goal is “to engage the community, inspire people to work in this area and use this document to raise interest and perhaps funding.” Below are the 37 members of the group.
Brigitte Autran and Christine Katlama
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Monsef Benkirane
Ben Berkhout
J. Scott Cairns
Nicolas Chomont
Tae-Wook Chun
Melissa Churchill
Steven Deeks
Michele Di Mascio
Alain Lafeuillade
Alan Landay
Michael Lederman
Sharon Lewin
Frank Maldarelli
David Margolis
Martin Markowitz
Javier Martinez-Picado
John Mellors
Santiago Moreno
James Mullins
Una O’Doherty
Sarah Palmer
Marie-Capucine Penicaud
B. Matija Peterlin
Guido Poli [NdD: l'unico italiano; o almeno, l'unico italiano che lavori in Italia]
Anna Laura Ross
Jean-Pierre Routy
Christine Rouzioux
Guido Silvestri
Mario Stevenson
Amalio Telenti
Carine Van Lint
Eric Verdin
Ann Woolfrey
John Zaia
The POZ 100-The Hunters
Most likely it won’t be a single person—or a single research team or institution—to discover the cure for HIV. Just like it was with AIDS treatment research, it will be a massive endeavor requiring monumental collaborative work between test tube and animal scientists, the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, government and nongovernmental organizations, clinical trial experts and, of course, study volunteers.
In addition to the Seekers on the previous pages, the 27 researchers below further exemplify the scientific leadership chipping away at the mystery of HIV persistence, many of whom are also testing novel ways to achieve either eradication or functional cures in the greatest number of people with HIV.
Much of their work wouldn’t be possible without significant funding from sources such as the Martin Delaney Collaboratory at the National Institutes of Health; amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research; and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Joseph Alvarnas
and Richard Ambinder
David Baltimore
Paul Cameron
Paula Cannon
Julian Elliott
Koh Fujinaga
Hiroyu Hatano
Frederick Hecht
and Daniel Douek
Timothy Henrich
Keith Jerome
and Hans-Peter Kiem
Mathias Lichterfeld
Robert Murphy
Douglas Nixon
Deborah Persaud
and Katherine Luzuriaga
Lawrence Petz
Quentin Sattentau
Rafick-Pierre Sekaly
and Mike McCune
Robert Siliciano
John Tilton
Linos Vanderkerckhove
Bruce Walker
John Young
The POZ 100-The Defenders
We can never end the AIDS pandemic with only an HIV cure. We’ll also need new technologies to prevent future infections. On that front we have what are called biomedical prevention efforts.
They include: pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP, when HIV-negative people take ARVs to prevent infection), treatment as prevention (TasP, the idea that positive people on successful treatment have lower viral loads and are thus less likely to spread HIV), male circumcision (particularly among heterosexual men in Africa) and microbicides (gels, creams or rings for vaginal and rectal use that can inhibit infection). Efforts to develop a vaccine slowly continue.
It’s true that medical approaches to prevent disease are sometimes met with skepticism—after all, few, if any, come without risks such as side effects and long-lasting problems like drug resistance—but the potential benefits of options now available appear thus far to outweigh potential risks. And importantly, research into kinder, gentler, easier-to-use and even more effective options continues steadily.
The 13 people below are some of the leaders in the biomedical prevention field who have helped usher in a new era of safer-sex tools and continue to advance the science and policy needed to reduce the number of new HIV cases.
Judy Auerbach
Jared Baeten
and Connie Celum
Deborah Birx
Susan Buchbinder
Dennis Burton
Myron Cohen
Barton Haynes
Albert Liu
Margaret McGlynn
Nelly Mugo
Zeda Rosenberg
Mitchell Warren
The POZ 100-The Soldiers
All wars—hot, cold and metaphorical—are won or lost on the front lines. The fight against HIV/AIDS is no different. Without the science—a cure, a vaccine and other biomedical prevention—the battle cannot be won. However, the science is only half the battle.
We’ll need leadership to get funding to implement those tools. We’ll also need legions of fighters to defend the dignity of people living with the virus, which includes a world without stigma and discrimination.
The 23 advocates, politicians and celebrities below are just a fraction of the countless souls across the globe doing the hard work of persuasion. They represent the many kinds of inroads needed to surround and suffocate HIV until it finally surrenders.
Bob Bowers
Timothy Brown
Gus Cairns
David Evans
Anthony Fauci
David France
Thomas Frieden
Kevin Frost
Jim Himes
Richard Jefferys
Elton John
Kate Krauss
Stephen LeBlanc
Barbara Lee
Kali Lindsey
Greg Louganis
Jim Pickett
Jamar Rogers
Paul Semugoma
Matt Sharp
Jeff Sheehy
Sean Strub
Michael Tikili