President Trump announces his administration’s goal to end the HIV epidemic in the United States in 10 years. The proposed Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America aims to reduce the number of new HIV infections domestically by 75% in five years and by 90% by 2030.
amfAR-funded researchers report on the case of the “London Patient,” who may be only the second person to have been cured of HIV. Like the “Berlin patient,” the man has no detectable HIV infection after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor with a genetic mutation conferring immunity to HIV.
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD, perform the first transplant of a kidney from an HIV-positive living donor into an HIV-positive recipient.
The NIH announces the launch of the LATITUDE clinical trial to evaluate long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy for maintaining HIV suppression in people who find it challenging to take daily antiretroviral drugs.
amfAR launches its Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Database website to help policymakers, public health officials, advocates, and other stakeholders to understand the opportunities and challenges across EHE jurisdictions.
