{"id":18102,"date":"2019-01-10T14:38:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/chairs-corner\/podcasts\/hiv-cure-research-and-connecting-to-the-community-with-dr-david-margolis-and-dr-allison-mathews\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:04:27","slug":"hiv-cure-research","status":"publish","type":"episode","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/chairs-corner\/podcast\/hiv-cure-research\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV Cure Research and Connecting to the Community: with Dr. David Margolis and Dr. Allison Mathews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --><span style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">How close are we to a cure for HIV, and what are the messages about HIV that the community needs to hear? Dr. Ron Falk interviews Dr. David Margolis and Dr. Allison Mathews in this episode about HIV cure research and the efforts of the 2BeatHIV project to connect with the community. Dr. Margolis is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and in the Department of Microbiology &amp; Immunology. He is the Director for the HIV Cure Center and leads the Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication (CARE.) Dr. Mathews is a researcher who has appointments in both the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and the Department of Social Medicine at UNC, and leads the \u201c2BeatHIV\u201d project.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"1118\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a class=\"thumbnail img-thumbnail\" href='https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/01\/hiv-cure-myths.mp3'>Myths about HIV cure<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"thumbnail img-thumbnail\" href='https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/01\/hiv-cure-message.mp3'>HIV cure - and the message to the community<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"thumbnail img-thumbnail\" href='https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/01\/hiv-testing.mp3'>HIV testing & community engagement<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"thumbnail img-thumbnail\" href='https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/01\/hiv-durham.mp3'>Community work in Durham, North Carolina<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"thumbnail img-thumbnail\" href='https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/01\/hiv-prevention.mp3'>Ways to prevent HIV<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"thumbnail img-thumbnail\" href='https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/01\/hiv-2beathiv.mp3'>An example of the 2BeatHIV approach<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"thumbnail img-thumbnail\" href='https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/01\/hiv-cure-research-unc.mp3'>HIV current therapy & HIV cure research at UNC<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.med.unc.edu\\\/medicine\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/945\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/hiv-cure-myths.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\\\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"Myths about HIV cure\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"hiv-cure-myths\\\". 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Released: 2019.\",\"meta\":{\"year\":\"2019\",\"length_formatted\":\"6:44\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.med.unc.edu\\\/medicine\\\/wp-content\\\/plugins\\\/media-library-assistant\\\/images\\\/crystal\\\/audio.png\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.med.unc.edu\\\/medicine\\\/wp-content\\\/plugins\\\/media-library-assistant\\\/images\\\/crystal\\\/audio.png\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"image-section\">\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/hiv-cure-research-image2.png\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Margolis, MD, and Allison Mathews, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<b>Listen to the full-length recording (25 minutes.)<\/b><\/p>\n<h4>\u201cPart of getting that message out ..is communicating this message that once you get tested, it\u2019s not a death sentence \u2013 you can get into medication, you can get access to resources to pay for the medication. And\u2026 that taking medication can prevent you from passing it on to your partner, and that there is a pill called PrEP that allows people to prevent themselves from getting HIV. That message is not widely known right now.\u201d<br \/>\n-Dr. Mathews<\/h4>\n<p><b>Falk:<\/b> Hello, this is Ron Falk for the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina. Welcome to the Chair\u2019s Corner.<\/p>\n<p>Today we will be talking about HIV and HIV cure\u2014current research being done at UNC, and the efforts to connect with the community on important findings and issues related to HIV.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome Dr. David Margolis and Dr. Allison Mathews.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Margolis is a Professor of Medicine in our Division of Infectious Diseases, he also has an appointment with the Department of Microbiology. He is the Director for the HIV Cure Center and he leads the Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication, also known as CARE, at the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>He has partnered today with Dr. Allison Mathews who is a researcher who has appointments in both the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and the Department of Social Medicine here, and she is known for her leadership with the \u201c2BeatHIV\u201d project, and we\u2019ll hear much more about that in a moment. Welcome, David and Allison.<\/p>\n<p><b>Margolis:<\/b> Thank you for having us.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mathews:<\/b> Thank you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Let<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s start with a number of issues. There are still, in 2016, a number of fallacies, or you would almost describe them as incorrect, preconceived notions about HIV, and even about the possibility of HIV cure. David, what can we do to dispel these myths?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Well, I think that for those of <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">us <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">entrenched in medicine and science, and taking care of people with HIV, some of these misconceptions are very hard to even understand or imagine. I think it<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s really people like Allison, who are really engaged in the community and sort of have a deeper understanding of really what<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s going on. So I think really the question is better answered by her than I.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> So Allison, you are embedded in the community. What are you hearing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Yes. Well, some of the myths that I hear are that the government and universities are purposefully withholding a cure from the black community specifically. There is a mistrust between the community and these institutions because people feel like there<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s been past scientific abuses that have occurred, and we haven<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">t overcome those issues yet. So people kind of perpetuate these myths, thinking that scientists are purposefully withholding information from them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> There are two issues. Is the perception that we are withholding as an institution or as an academic environment in general <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2013 <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">the information about the disease, or<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> even more worrisomely, <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">is <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">the thought that there is <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">a <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">withhold<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ing<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> of cure o<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">r<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> an approach to actually eradicating the disease? Or is it both?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> I think that it<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s both. Part of it is that people believe that institutions are trying to make money off of treating people with HIV, so to withhold <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">a cure <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">then means that they can then make money eventually down the road. The other part of it is this withholding of information about the science, about the process of clinical trials, and about making money from these medications that may be developed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>Transcript continues below. See individual tabs to jump to specific topics.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"accordion2\" class=\"accordion\">\n<div class=\"accordion-group\">\n<div class=\"accordion-heading\"><a class=\"accordion-toggle\" href=\"#collapseOne\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion2\">HIV cure &#8211; and the message to the community<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseOne\" class=\"accordion-body collapse\">\n<div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> So David, you of all people have been talking about HIV and cure for HIV. How close are we?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> I think that<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s very hard to say. I think I expect to be working on this for the rest of my career. So we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">re talking about years away. I think we hope that there would be a breakthrough or an advance that would really accelerate the process, but I don<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">t think we can live on that kind of hope. What makes me hopeful is to see the really steady and accelerating advance of the field from where just five or seven years ago really no one was working on this problem, this challenge. Now there are dozens of groups and hundreds of scientists and some drug companies around the world working on the problem, and I think everyone recognizes that it<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s an extremely high bar and very challenging, but I think we can only know by taking the path to try to get there. <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> The immediate response to those in the community who think that we are withholding cure<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> is that wonderful scientists here and elsewhere haven<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">t achieved a cure for HIV yet, although there<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s hope in the future <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2013 <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">and we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ll come to that and talk more about that. Is there also a perception though that there is information that<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s being withheld? What kind of information do you think would be beneficial to get out into the community, more than what<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s out there already?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> I think<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> the information that is important to communicate to people is that we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">re not purposefully withholding a cure for HIV from the community, but there is a process, a long process, that people have to understand about clinical trials. The 2BeatHIV project aims to use crowdsourcing contests <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2013 <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">this idea of engaging the community in these conversations about HIV cure research and the process of clinical trials and how to protect participants and the community<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> as a way to then to dispel these myths about there being information withheld from the community members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Tell us a little more about that program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Well, the name of the project, and even the format of doing crowdsourcing contests was all developed by community members through feedback that we got from people asking them: <\/span><em><span class=\"Body__Char\">What type of name<\/span><\/em><span class=\"Body__Char\"><em>, and how should we reach people?<\/em> <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">So we decided to use <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">2Beat<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u201d \u2013<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">basically a reference to hip hop and music, but also this double meaning of having a goal and a target to beat HIV in the medical sense and also in the social sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion-group\">\n<div class=\"accordion-heading\"><a class=\"accordion-toggle\" href=\"#collapseTwo\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion2\">HIV testing &amp; community engagement<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseTwo\" class=\"accordion-body collapse\">\n<div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Part of beating HIV, though, presumes that people know that they have HIV and that they<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ve been tested for it. In 2016, is everyone who should be tested for HIV being tested for it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Well, certainly not. I think we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ve made some advances in that regard, but still, over many years now, about the same number of new infections happen per year, every year, than they have for 10, 15, 20 years or so. We have a lot of new tools. We have rapid tests that can be done with a saliva swab, but it<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s really the process of overcoming the stigma, the fear, the information gap, and to engage the community with the health care system, to be able to deliver information, the appropriate messages, and access to testing, and if needed, access to medical care to allow us to really grapple with the HIV pandemic in a better way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">I don<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">t think we can expect people to come in to be tested if they think there<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s going to be no help for them or nowhere for them to get treatment. There<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s been a lot of advances in that regard as treatment is now so much better and so much more effective, but still there are a lot of barriers to engaging people in the medical system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> That<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s really of concern, simply because of the now well-recognized possibility that one can prevent the spread of HIV with current therapy<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2013<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">not therapy in the future, but therapy right now. You<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">d really hope that everybody would want to be tested so that they wouldn<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">t infect folks and loved ones in their environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> I think part of getting that message out about getting tested is communicating this message that once you get tested, it<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s not a death sentence <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2013 <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">you can get into medication, you can get access to resources to pay for the medication. And also get th<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">e<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> message out that taking medication can prevent you from passing it on to your partner, and that there is a pill called PrEP that allows people to prevent themselves from getting HIV. That message is not widely known right now, and it<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s not being seen on public commercials, so the onus is on us as researchers and people who do community outreach to get that message out so that it will encourage people to want to get tested and not be afraid of what possible result would come from that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> What<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s the role of the community then in passing that message along?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\"><strong>Mathews:<\/strong> <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">The role of the community, I think, is making sure that they are involved in community-based organizations and getting more information about HIV and HIV testing. One of the things that I like about the crowd-sourcing contests is the idea that they are contributing their ideas on how to develop campaigns using music, art, and technology, and social media, to design campaigns that are culturally relevant, and that make these messages easy to understand, and easy to access. So that could be the role of the community, as really having a say in designing how those messages come out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> It<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s true for patient engagement or citizen engagement in general. Patients and citizens always know the best approach to helping their own community, way better than we who are on the other end of the white coat. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion-group\">\n<div class=\"accordion-heading\"><a class=\"accordion-toggle\" href=\"#collapseThree\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion2\">Community work in Durham, North Carolina<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseThree\" class=\"accordion-body collapse\">\n<div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n<p><strong>Falk: <\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">Why Durham? You<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">ve spent a lot of time, Allison, doing your investigations in Durham. Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Part of the reason that I<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ve done a lot of work in Durham is because I<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ve lived here for a long time, and I believe that in order to do effective community engagement you really need to work with people who live in the communities and who know the communities well. But the other part of it is that Durham is the third highest county in North Carolina for HIV infection rates, and number nine in the country for AIDS-related deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Wow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> So even though we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">re a small city, we actually are pretty impacted by the HIV epidemic. It<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s very important for us to really concentrate our efforts on thinking about how our experiences with the HIV epidemic might be unique from other bigger cities like Atlanta and New York and LA and San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> But in a lot of ways Durham is very emblematic of the south, which is a really heavily affected part of the country for the HIV epidemic currently. A lot of the issues that are important there are really important across our part of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> One wonders then, whether real preventive efforts should be targeted in those areas. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion-group\">\n<div class=\"accordion-heading\"><a class=\"accordion-toggle\" href=\"#collapseFour\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion2\">Ways to prevent HIV<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseFour\" class=\"accordion-body collapse\">\n<div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Walk me through how you prevent HIV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Well, there are a lot of tools to prevent HIV. You mentioned one of the recent advances by Mike Cohen here at UNC, showing that treatment of people with infection prevented spread of infection. But obviously, the most simple prevention method is to have safe sex with barrier methods of contraception which can also prevent spread. Allison mentioned PrEP, which stands for <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">Pre Exposure Prophylaxis<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">so this is the use of anti-viral medicines by people who aren<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">t infected yet taken close to the time when they might be exposed, and the use of those medicines has been shown to prevent transmission from an infected person to the person who is taking PrEP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">There are now studies and experiments going on trying to develop different kinds of PrEP that are easier to use, and perhaps safer and more long-lasting; medicines that could be applied topically, and now medicines that can be taken once and last for many weeks and even months, similar to the idea of taking birth control pills to prevent an event for a long period of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">There can even be the use of anti-viral drugs immediately after an exposure to prevent the establishment of an infection<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">that<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s a difficult thing to do but can sometimes be useful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">Then of course ultimately, if the research community could develop a vaccine, that<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s another big goal of the HIV research community that many people have worked on for many years, and there are still advances going on and hope that we will get to a more effective vaccine. There is a vaccine that was used in a study in Thailand and was barely effective, but it did prevent about 30 percent of lowering the risk of transmission. It<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s sort of a starting point. Another recent development is the use of special antibodies that are very broadly protective against HIV that may be either developed for administration or if we could teach the immune system of people to make these antibodies on their own, that would essentially constitute a very effective vaccine approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">So there<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">s a lot of tools. One of the bigger challenges is to figure out how to effectively use these tools in the community to have the best effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> One of the things that has always been a challenge is not just that we have these advances in medication, but also making sure that people have access to that medication and can afford it. There<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s a lot of barriers and red tape that people have to go through in order to be able to see the physicians and be able to get access, insurance to cover the medication, and understanding that it<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s important to continue to take the medication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">We<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ve been putting out messages that people should use condoms, and make sure they use medication, but it<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s also a matter of really addressing some of the structural and social aspects of that, like access to health care, and access to education, and transportation. That also would help prevent HIV <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2013 <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">prevent the spread. And also making sure that we coordinate efforts between HIV prevention, treatment, and cure.<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> R<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">esearchers and outreach workers and physicians<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">just making sure that everything is coordinated.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion-group\">\n<div class=\"accordion-heading\"><a class=\"accordion-toggle\" href=\"#collapseFive\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion2\">An example of the 2BeatHIV approach<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseFive\" class=\"accordion-body collapse\">\n<div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Let<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s have a specific example, if you would. How would you use the 2BeatHIV approach to get out the message that PrEP even exists?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\"> Well, one of the things that we have done previously is have a contest where we had community members submit art, music, poetry<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">different types of creative material reflecting on a particular problem. That problem for the first contest that we did was to raise awareness about HIV cure research through a campaign. So they submitted their ideas and their creative material, and then we selected one, and we pulled some of the best submissions to then create promotional materials and campaign materials that would then be further disseminated throughout the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">Then we also hosted a lot of different events with community partners throughout the year that raised awareness about HIV cure research, and partnered with organizations so that they would also benefit from being affiliated with the University and being affiliated with the project. So I would do something similar to that with trying to develop some type of community-based, community-sourced messaging around PrEP, to design some type of campaign that <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">was community-built.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> I wonder how many of well-educated health professionals know that PrEP exists, let alone members of the community. It<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s a substantial advance in so many ways, and I<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">m not sure that our average medical student or even practicing physician knows that it exists.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion-group\">\n<div class=\"accordion-heading\"><a class=\"accordion-toggle\" href=\"#collapseSix\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion2\">HIV current therapy &amp; HIV cure research at UNC<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseSix\" class=\"accordion-body collapse\">\n<div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\"><strong>Falk:<\/strong> David, what are we going to be able to do to improve current therapy for HIV, or is it really as good as it can be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> I think as far as the effectiveness of stopping the virus from growing and spreading, and allowing the immune system to recover, and keeping people healthy, therapy is about as good as it can be. Therapy is essentially one hundred percent effective in one hundred percent of people who are able to get the pill and take it every day. The major advances that I think we will see are really in the delivery of those medications. Medications that can last for longer periods of time, or perhaps, for instance, an injection or an implantable device that you would get, only a few times a year for at least some people who need that type of treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> What then is this strategy for HIV cure? You use the interesting combination of words, <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">kick and kill<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">.<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u201d <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">What<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s that all about?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\"> Well, that<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">s not my term and not my favorite one, but it is quite colorful and descriptive. Current therapy stops a virus in an infected person from being able to grow and spread within the body, but it doesn<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">t eliminate the virus in the infected cells. There are what we call so-called <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">latent reservoirs<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">\u201d <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\" style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">of cells that contain virus, and if therapy is stopped, if the person goes off medication, the virus can turn on again and start to recreate disease all over again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">This is why people need to maintain a steady adherence to therapy, which really, for many people who are infected in their twenties or thirties, could be decades and decades of every day medication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">The idea is to try to eliminate this latent reservoir left over, small amount of virus, which is really very rare inside the body in people who are HIV-infected, but on effective treatment. And the challenge is, when the virus is in this latent state, it<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s essentially invisible to the immune system because there are no viral proteins being expressed. An infected cell doesn<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">t look any different than its neighbor, healthy, uninfected cell. So that<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s where the <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">kick and kill <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">comes in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">The<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> kick<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> is understanding how we can affect the virus inside the cell so that it turns on again and sort of unveils itself, unmasks itself. And that infected cell then becomes vulnerable, and then the<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> kill<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> is essentially an immune kind of intervention to deliver an immune response that recognizes these rare cells, sees them, and clears them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> You<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ve just been awarded a wonderful NIH grant. The first of these was the NIH funding for CARE in 2011 and now you<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ve been highly successful in getting that program refunded. What<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s the goal of this current application? Why did you just get 23 million dollars to continue your fantastic research?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Well, we got 23 million dollars because we have a lot of smart people working really hard, and the problem is very difficult. At the beginning of the program, in 2010, 2011, there was not really a whole lot of history to HIV cure research, so we were really developing the field from scratch, trying to understand more about how the virus remains latent, how to reverse latency, and make the latently infected cells vulnerable, how to measure these things, both in the lab and the clinic, because they<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">re both very rare, difficult to detect events. And how to model this, both in the tissue culture dish in the lab, and in animal models with HIV infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">Over the five years we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ve made some progress, but all of the parts of the program need further refinement and improvement, but we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ve now gotten to the point where we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">re beginning actually first two clinical trials, two clinical experiments where we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">re trying to put the <\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">kick and the kill<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\"> together in a patient in a very controlled, careful way, not expecting to actually cure anyone, but trying to actually see if we can measure for the first time, chipping away at this reservoir, and making it smaller and moving towards the direction of cure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"Body__Char\">So our funding for this next five-year period is to essentially keep moving the field forward, both reversing latency and making infected cells vulnerable, measuring these effects in models and people, and a new and interesting tool using an antibody that<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s engineered to be different than a normal antibody, but it has the ability to bind both an infected cell and any immune cell, not just an immune cell that recognizes HIV but any cell that<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s floating around, and direct that immune cell to kill the infected cell. So these are called DARTS because they are dually active, redirecting antibodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> These grants are typically five years long. Where are we going to be in 2021, or 2022?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> I hope that by that time, we will have experiments in animals that show significant clearance of latent infection, and perhaps cure in some animal models, and that we will be doing several clinical experiments on the small scale, testing advanced ways to reverse latency and clear latent infection. I expect that once we move forward and start to make some advances, we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ll discover some new challenges that we don<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">t know about yet, but we<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">ll just have to deal with them as they come up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> The fun of science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">That<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"Body__Char\">s right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Falk:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Thank you both for spending time with me today. Thanks so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Mathews:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" dir=\"LTR\"><strong><span class=\"Body__Char\">Margolis:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Body__Char\"> Great to be here.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-blue width:100% \">\n<p><strong>Visit these sites for more information related to this podcast conversation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/delaneycare.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/globalhealth.unc.edu\/2016\/08\/science-understanding-hiv-latency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Science: Understanding HIV Latency&#8221; article on Dr. Margolis&#8217; July 2016 publication<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/2beathiv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 2BeatHIV Project<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p> var audio; var playlist; var tracks; var current; init(); function init(){ current = 0; audio = $(&#8216;audio&#8217;); playlist = $(&#8216;#playlist&#8217;); tracks = playlist.find(&#8216;li a&#8217;); len = tracks.length &#8211; 1; audio[0].volume = .50; playlist.find(&#8216;a&#8217;).click(function(e){ e.preventDefault(); link = $(this); current = link.parent().index(); run(link, audio[0]); }); audio[0].addEventListener(&#8216;ended&#8217;,function(e){ current++; if(current == len){ current = 1; link = playlist.find(&#8216;a&#8217;)[0]; }else{ link = playlist.find(&#8216;a&#8217;)[current]; } \/* run($(link),audio[0]); stops from going to next track *\/ }); } function run(link, player){ player.src = link.attr(&#8216;href&#8217;); par = link.parent(); par.addClass(&#8216;active&#8217;).siblings().removeClass(&#8216;active&#8217;); audio[0].load(); audio[0].play(); } <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --> <\/p>\n<p class='lead'>How close are we to a cure for HIV, and what are the messages about HIV that the community needs to hear? 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