Monday, December 1, 2014
12:30-1:30pm ET
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?
Moderator: Carol Hills, senior producer and reporter, PRI’s The World
Expert Participants
- Mark Wainberg, director, McGill AIDS Centre, McGill University
- Max Essex, chairman, Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative
- Kenneth Mayer, medical research director and co-chair of The Fenway Institute
- Shahin Lockman, associate professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
Watch the Live Webcast Here on World AIDS Day
E-mail questions for the expert participants any time before or during the live webcast to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu. Or Tweet them to @ForumHSPH using #TreatmentasPrevention2014.
Part of: The Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies.
Presented in Collaboration with PRI’s The World and WGBH
Background Articles
- HSPH AIDS Initiative
Viral Load as an Anti-AIDS Hammer - http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/08/viral-load-as-an-anti-aids-hammer/