Capitol Hill briefing addresses research agenda to end AIDS epidemic

May 25 2012

In a guest blog post on the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks," Chris Collins, vice president and director of public policy at amfAR: The Foundation for AIDS Research, and Mitchell Warren, executive director of AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention, summarize a Capitol Hill briefing "on the research agenda for beginning to end the AIDS epidemic" that took place Wednesday. "[R]esearchers, policymakers, and advocates joined our organizations and the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus" at the briefing to discuss "the research agenda needed to bring the epidemic to a close, with special focus on" combination interventions for treatment and prevention; "progress on vaccine and cure research"; and the importance of HIV testing, they write. Collins and Warren conclude, "We need to finance the response, make strategic choices about what to bring to scale (and what not to) and stop discriminating against high-risk populations. Whether you're a researcher, policymaker or advocate, new scientific developments are how we end the epidemic" (5/24).