Category: HIV remission
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For August 2025, there were eight updates to the TAG listing. New Additions A study sponsored by the ANRS RHIVIERA project in France plans to investigate the JAK1/JAK2 Inhibitor baricitinib and the mTOR Inhibitor sirolimus in people who started antiretroviral therapy (ART) soon after HIV acquisition. Baricitinib is also being tested in several other ongoing…
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For March, April, and May 2025, there were 38 updates to entries in TAG’s listing. The majority involved the addition of links to results presented at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in San Francisco. As is covered further below, this period has seen a horrific and unprecedented political attack on scientific…
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The 25th International AIDS Conference is taking place in Munich, Germany from July 22-26, with several pre-conference events scheduled on Sunday, July 21st. Remote access will also be possible for registered attendees, with recordings made publicly available at some point after the meeting ends. Links to events and sessions related to HIV cure research are…
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The March 2024 revision to TAG’s listing includes 26 updates. The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place in Denver from March 3-6, and the addition of links to results from HIV cure-related studies presented at the meeting typically makes this the busiest month for changes — hence the delay to this…
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The 24th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2022) officially opens on Friday in Montreal, but a Zoom press conference today shared news of results from several studies, including two case reports relevant to HIV cure research. Jana Dickter from the City of Hope hospital in Los Angeles described another instance of “prolonged HIV-1 remission” after receipt…
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The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is taking place virtually again this year, running from February 12th to February 24th. In a session today on HIV cure research, Yvonne Bryson and colleagues from the IMPAACT research network presented important news about another potential example of an HIV cure achieved by stem cell transplantation.…
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Today, a presentation by Ricardo Diaz at the ongoing virtual International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020) caused a major splash in the media by reporting that one out of 30 participants in a clinical trial conducted in Brazil has experienced a lack of viral load rebound for a little over a year (64.7 weeks) after interrupting…
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One of the most widely discussed and publicized ideas for targeting the HIV reservoir is “kick and kill” or “shock and kill.” The aim is to kick dormant, latent HIV into revealing itself so the cells that contain the virus are visible to the immune system; the kill aspect involves trying to enhance the immune…
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Important news has unfolded this week regarding possible additional cases of HIV cures and remission. Yesterday, the London Patient (LP) courageously publicly identified himself as Adam Castillejo in an excellent, thoughtful and empathetic article in the New York Times by Apoorva Mandivilli. While his name is now known, I’ll follow his preference to go by…
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The 2019 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place in Seattle from March 3rd-7th. The major news on the cure research front was the possibility of two additional cases similar to Timothy Ray Brown, who for the past 12 years has been the only individual considered cured of HIV infection (TAG issued a…