APRIL 1, 2019

The Plan to End HIV

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

The plan to end HIV in the United States by 2030 is elegant in its simplicity and sophisticated in its scientific methods, but it will take people, resources and political will to accomplish. And some HIV experts wonder whether they will materialize.

The “game changer” that makes this endeavor conceivable is the area of treatment, said Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Antiretroviral therapy (ART)