On June 5, 1981, the CDC published a note in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that five gay men in Los Angeles had been treated for a rare fungal infection of the lungs caused by a severely weakened immune …
In this three part series, Dr. Kenneth H. Mayer, Fenway Health Medical Research Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute, reflects on the 40th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic.
Unlike the onset of the AIDS epidemic, where a specific …
In this three part series, Dr. Kenneth H. Mayer, Fenway Health Medical Research Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute, reflects on the 40th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic.
It was 1983, and the recently named AIDS epidemic was …
In this three part series, Dr. Kenneth H. Mayer, Fenway Health Medical Research Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute, reflects on the 40th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic.
Surviving medical school in the late 1970s entailed learning the …
SEATTLE, WA – JANUARY 26, 2021 – The proof-of-concept AMP studies demonstrated that a broadly neutralizing antibody (bnAb) called VRC01 was effective at preventing the acquisition of HIV strains that were sensitive to the bnAb. This was assessed by a …
DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) announced today that the HPTN 083 clinical trial showed that a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) regimen containing long-acting cabotegravir (CAB LA) injected once every 8 weeks was superior to daily …
Boston, MA, May 18 2020 – Today ViiV Healthcare announced the interim analysis of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 083 study evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational, long-acting, injectable cabotegravir for HIV prevention. In the study, cabotegravir was …
Dr. Kenneth Mayer, Medical Research Director at The Fenway Institute, served as a Guest Editor on a new special issue of Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS). The supplemental issue, titled Understanding and addressing the HIV and STI syndemics…
Fenway Institute faculty members will be presenting at this year’s International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference in Mexico City July 21-24. The IAS Conference is the largest open scientific conference on HIV science in the world.
Kenneth Mayer, MD, Medical Research …
BOSTON, August 13, 2018—A new HIV prevention study published today in JAMA Pediatrics found that Project Lifeskills—a culturally specific, empowerment-based, and group-delivered behavioral prevention intervention—significantly reduced sexual risk for HIV acquisition and transmission in sexually active young transgender women …
