Nelson Vergel (PowerUSA.org) moderates a google hangout webcast with two leading HIV Cure research activists: Richard Jeffreys and Robert Reinhard. They will update us on progress made after a cure was possible for Timothy Brown, the only person cured of HIV in 2008. They will explain how researchers have tried to cure several people since then and their setbacks and breakthroughs that could help over 33 million people living with HIV around the world.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Richard Jefferys began working in the HIV/AIDS field in 1993 at the nonprofit AIDS Treatment Data Network in New York City. Since that time he has written for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative's IAVI Report and, in late 2001, he joined the Treatment Action Group (TAG) where he now directs the Michael Palm Basic Science, Vaccines, and Cure Project. The project covers the pathogenesis and immunology of HIV infection and advocates for the development of immune-based therapies, effective vaccines, and a cure.


Robert Reinhard serves as the Community Liaison and a Steering Committee member of the CanCURE research consortium (www.cancurehiv.org), a Canadian national team grant to understand the role of myeloid/macrophage cells in HIV persistence and cure strategies. He is also a research associate and community team member in the University of Toronto laboratory of Mario Ostrowski developing a therapeutic HIV vaccine. Robert is a member of the International AIDS Society Towards an HIV Cure Industry Collaboration working group.

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