What are HIV Clinical Trials & are they right for you? | Tom Villa x Raif Derrazi

I sat down with Tom to discuss HIV clinical trials (for vaccines, cure & treatment), what they are, how they work and what you need to know before participating in one. Also, what is an Analytic Treatment Interruption and what does it mean for you and your potential sex partners? This and more.

Thomas J. Villa (Tom) works to help end the HIV epidemic by leveraging three decades of experience as a healthcare executive in biotechnology, graduate medical education and community health.

Tom serves as Community Advisor to various teams researching effective strategies to prevent, treat and/or cure HIV including both the HOPE and RID-HIV Martin Delaney Collaboratories for HIV Cure Research. He has special interest in use of behavioral and social sciences research to enhance the impact of biomedical interventions through use of a participant-centered, whole person approach.

Tom is a serial research participant himself. He has been a volunteer participant in more than two dozen HIV clinical studies, including several ongoing observational studies, early phase and Phase 1 interventional trials and those involving analytic treatment interruption. A practicing writer, Tom sees the arts as an untapped means to engage and inform the wider community not typically involved in clinical research.

NIH Clinical Center
https://clinicalstudies.info.nih.gov/...

ClinicalTrials.gov
https://clinicaltrials.gov/

ACTG - AIDS Clinical Trials Group
https://actgnetwork.org/clinical-trial/

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