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Spring 2012

The Beginning of the End of AIDS?

Harvey Fineberg

"From the outset, AIDS evoked and exposed both the best and the worst in the human condition: on the one side, fear, bigotry, stigma, distrust, hatred, and despair; and on the other side, love, compassion, caring, trust, community, and hope." Continue...


Using HIV Viral Load to Guide Treatment-for-Prevention Interventions

In a paper published in the March issue of Current Opinion in HIV & AIDS, HAI researchers Max Essex and Vlad Novitsky provide evidence that HIV-1 RNA load can guide treatment-for-prevention interventions to slow the AIDS epidemic. Continue...


Q & A with Jacques Pepin

Pepin

In his book, The Origin of AIDS, Dr. Jacques Pepin looks back at the events that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS in Africa and its subsequent development into a modern pandemic. Continue...

 

Profile: Molly Pretorius Holme

Molly Pretorius Holme

It was in a medical anthropology class at Mt. Holyoke College that Molly Holme began asking the kind of questions that influence her work at the Harvard AIDS Initiative (HAI). Continue...


Excerpt from The Genome Generation

In her new book, The Genome Generation, journalist Elizabeth Finkel explores what we've learned in the ten years since the complete sequencing of the human genome. Continue...


Joseph E. Brooks

We sadly note the passing in January of Joseph E. Brooks, a longtime supporter of HAI and a member of our International Advisory Council (IAC). Continue...


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