Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day. In the past 25 years, 21 million deaths from AIDS have been averted globally through developing and delivering better treatments for HIV. That’s an incredible accomplishment: going from HIV as a death sentence to making HIV a chronic condition with which people on treatment can have a normal lifespan.
Researchers at the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Medicine have been leading biology, treatment and prevention work in the field of HIV and AIDS for decades. Faculty Dr. Connie Celum and Dr. Chase Cannon share the progress being made both in Seattle and around the world to advance health equity and create innovative solutions for improving the lives of people living with HIV.
5 priority areas AIDS and HIV researchers are working on now
Featuring Dr. Connie Celum, professor of Global Health, Medicine and adjunct professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Medicine, director of the Center for AIDS Research, and director of the International Clinical Research Center
How Seattle and King County are making HIV care more accessible
Featuring Dr. Chase Cannon, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and MPH alum of the University of Washington School of Public Health