Give To Our HIV/AIDS Clinic

Due to your generosity, AIDS Research Alliance is able to continue its work on its most important research initiative - the search for a cure for HIV/AIDS.

The recent expansion of our laboratory has given me more space to conduct the FDA  required experiments on our drug candidate, prostratin, and to conduct additional studies with Dr. Otto Yang of UCLA. Early experiments on prostratin's effect on the HIV reservoirs look promising. 

Outside of the laboratory, I had the pleasure to attend ARA's World AIDS Day Concert at The Colburn School for the first time. The presentations underscored the urgency of  continued HIV/AIDS research. This year, we honored Robin Smalley,  International Director and Co-Founder of Mothers2Mothers, an  organization that works to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother  to child in Africa. The research that lead to better treatments for HIV made the progress of Mothers2Mothers possible. AIDS Research Alliance was involved in the development of half of those drugs.

Just imagine if we could find a cure for HIV within the  next decade. What would this mean to the more than 35 million people  living with HIV worldwide, to the almost 3 million more who will  unfortunately become infected with HIV within next year, or to the  thousands of children who are infected with HIV every week?

Every year, World AIDS Day reminds us that AIDS is not over. See the attached article published in the Los Angeles Times, by Dr. Warner Greene of the Blackstone Institute of the University of California, San Francisco,  which validates the continuing urgency for HIV/AIDS research. 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you again for your past support, and to wish you a happy holiday season.

Warm regards,

Stefanie

Links:

• AIDS fatigue: a dangerous diagnosis