Altruism: Scoping review of the literature and future directions for HIV cure-related research [PDF]
Introduction: The question of what motivates people to participate in research is particularly salient in the HIV field. While participation in HIV research was driven by survival in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, access to novel therapies became the ...
Karine Dubé +16 more
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Participation in HIV cure-related research: a scoping review of the proxy literature and implications for future research [PDF]
Objective: To identify the main types of HIV cure-related strategies and examine possible risks (and benefits) associated with participating in HIV cure-related research studies.
Karine Dubé +6 more
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Willingness to risk death endpoint in HIV cure-related research with otherwise healthy volunteers is misleading [PDF]
This viewpoint article critiques two recent articles examining ‘willingness to risk death’ to advance HIV cure-related research. The ‘willingness to risk death’ endpoint sends the wrong signal to the HIV cure-related research community about ongoing ...
Karine Dubé, Lynda Dee
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Ethical and practical considerations for mitigating risks to sexual partners during analytical treatment interruptions in HIV cure-related research [PDF]
Background Background: Analytical treatment interruptions (ATIs) in HIV cure-related research can result in trial participants becoming viremic with HIV, placing HIV-negative sexual partners at elevated risk of acquiring HIV.
Karine Dubé +10 more
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Revisiting the ‘sterilising cure’ terminology: a call for more patient-centred perspectives on HIV cure-related research [PDF]
The literature on HIV therapeutics research is rife with terminology associating ‘sterilisation’ with HIV cure. We find connotations of the word ‘sterilising’ problematic for the HIV cure research field.
Luke Newton +10 more
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Community HIV clinicians’ perceptions about HIV cure-related research in the Northwestern United States [PDF]
Background: Research on stakeholder perspectives of HIV cure research has involved people with HIV (PWH), who generally cite the importance of HIV clinician advice in making decisions about trial participation.
Laurie Sylla +4 more
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Increasing the meaningful involvement of women in HIV cure-related research: a qualitative interview study in the United States [PDF]
Background Cisgender women represent over half of people living with HIV globally. However, current research efforts toward a cure for HIV focus predominantly on cisgender men.
Karine Dubé +21 more
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‘With this study, we have hope that something is coming’: community members’ perceptions of HIV cure-related research in Durban, South Africa – a qualitative focus group study [PDF]
Background Developing a cure for HIV remains a global scientific priority. In 2022, the Females Rising through Education, Support and Health (FRESH) cohort launched an HIV cure-related trial involving an analytical treatment interruption (ATI) in Durban,
Karine Dubé +9 more
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Ethical and practical considerations for HIV cure-related research at the end-of-life: a qualitative interview and focus group study in the United States [PDF]
Background One of the next frontiers in HIV research is focused on finding a cure. A new priority includes people with HIV (PWH) with non-AIDS terminal illnesses who are willing to donate their bodies at the end-of-life (EOL) to advance the search ...
John Kanazawa +13 more
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"I would really want to know that they had my back": Transgender women's perceptions of HIV cure-related research in the United States. [PDF]
Forty-four percent of Black transgender women are living with HIV, and many face challenges with HIV care engagement. An HIV cure has much to offer this population, however little HIV cure-related research has included them.
Tonia Poteat +4 more
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