Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Retrovirus y SIDA (INBIRS), CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Facultad de Medicina. Departamento de Microbiología, Parasitología e Inmunología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
HIV Res Clin Pract. 2024 Dec;25(1):2403955. doi: 10.1080/25787489.2024.2403955. Epub 2024 Sep 18.
The development of effective HIV cure strategies is crucial. However, most research in this area has been concentrated in high-income countries, underscoring the need to expand efforts to regions like Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which face distinct biomedical, social, political, and economic challenges. Data on LAC's participation in HIV cure research, along with stakeholder perceptions, reveal that the work being done in the region is scarce, fragmented, scattered, and characterized by limited resources and infrastructure. Establishing a regional consortium of basic researchers, clinicians, social scientists, and community members in LAC could be a key step in integrating the region into the global HIV cure landscape. We have already begun laying the groundwork for its creation and propose to name it 'LAC-Cura'-short for 'Latin America and the Caribbean HIV Cure Consortium'.
开发有效的 HIV 治愈策略至关重要。然而，该领域的大多数研究都集中在高收入国家，这凸显了需要向拉丁美洲和加勒比地区（LAC）等地区扩大努力，这些地区面临着独特的生物医学、社会、政治和经济挑战。有关 LAC 参与 HIV 治愈研究的数据以及利益相关者的看法表明，该地区所做的工作很少，分散且零碎，资源和基础设施有限。在 LAC 建立一个由基础研究人员、临床医生、社会科学家和社区成员组成的区域联盟，可能是将该地区纳入全球 HIV 治愈格局的关键一步。我们已经开始为其创建奠定基础，并提议将其命名为“LAC-Cura”-即“拉丁美洲和加勒比 HIV 治愈联盟”的缩写。
