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The ISHEID Meeting Makes a Donation of 2,500 Euros to The Berlin Patient, The First Man Cured from HIV/AIDS
The International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases (ISHEID) currently held in Marseilles, France, is focused
on a search for an HIV cure. Timothy Ray Brown, the "Berlin Patient" is the main star of it.
May 25, 2012 - Marseilles, France - HIV infection currently hits 34 millions individuals
worldwide. It is therefore a top priority to find a vaccine for those who have not yet been infected and a cure
for those who already are.
This is the topic of the ISHEID meeting taking place in
Marseilles, France, from 23 to 25 May.
More than 1,000 international experts are at the Parc Chanot Congress Center to discuss new therapeutic strategies
to challenge the HIV pandemic.
 Scientists
want to reach at least a functional HIV cure within a few years, and finally a sterilizing cure.
There are already many drugs ready to be tested in clinical trials and what is mainly lacking is funding for this research.
Alain Lafeuillade, President of the ISHEID meeting states: "It is urgent to bring closer scientists, opinion leaders
and politicians to fund this research of an HIV cure because we have never been closer than now of this goal".
The ISHEID organizers have decided today to make a donation to Timothy Ray Brown of 2,500 Euros via his website and
call for other supporters of this cause to do the same:
http://www.timothyrbrown.com/
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2012 ISHEID
About the conference:
The Steering Committee contains Professor Jean-François Delfraissy (Director of the French Agency of AIDS Research, Paris, France),
Jose Gatell (Barcelona, Spain), Guido Poli (Milano, Italy), Jean-Pierre Routy (Montreal, Canada),
Christine Rouzioux (Paris, France), Vicente Soriano (Madrid, Spain), Hans-Jürgen Stellbrink (Hambourg, Germany)
and Stefano Vella (Rome, Italy). Website: http://www.isheid.com/en/committees/interview.html
Contact:
Alain Lafeuillade
General Hospital
Toulon, 83056
France
33-4-94616340
Email: lafeuillade@orange.fr
Web: http://www.isheid.com
"Reproduced with permission - "ISHEID"
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