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Reasons For Hope (RFH)

is Search For A Cure's national HIV treatment news series.

RFH covers the latest in developing therapies for treating HIV/AIDS.

RFH is published in over 90 community newspapers and found on many websites for people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. We encourage your comments and critiques. Email hope@sfac.org Feel free to copy and distribute any and all RFH articles.

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Why We Should All be in a Clinical Trial

It is hard to get people to join a study of new medicines nowadays. This is mostly because people think the therapies we have are good enough. It's not true. HIV medicines fail some people. And they are too expensive for most of the world to use.

The medicines we have are not a cure, are a lifelong financial burden and have lots of side effects. The only way to see if new therapies work is to test them on people with HIV. The only way to see if a vaccine will work is to test it on people without HIV. If we want the day to come that HIV is a thing of the past the most important thing we can all do is find a study that needs us and join it.

Audio

David Scondras has been an AIDS activist for more than 20 years and he has attended many International AIDS Conferences. He discusses some of AIDS 2006's highlights.



Living Center Speaker

Search for a Cure was fortunate enough to get both Dr. Cohen and Dr. Mayer of Brown University to speak about HIV/AIDS at the Living Center in Boston.

1st half of the speech                 2nd half of the speech

Dr. Cohen 1/2 speech             Dr. Cohen 2/2 speech

click here for the quicktime version of part 1.
click here for the quicktime version of part 2
click here for the powerpoints used in the presentation.


Malawi Movie

a short movie made by Emerson University students in conjunction with David Scondras on the epidemic in Malawi Africa.
click here for the quicktime version.

Emerson Malawi video


Trapeze Malawi Movie

a short clip produced by the Trapeze company on a recent trip by David Scondras to Malawi.
click here for the quicktime version.

Trapeze Malawi Movie

copyright Steven McGaughey 2006