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Marvellous Medicines and How They Changed Humanity

Professor Matt Higgins · Gresham College

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A stark advert picturing a gravestone chiselled with ‘AIDS: DON’T DIE OF IGNORANCE’ captured the horror of this disease in the 1980s. Now, for HIV-infected people able to access anti-retroviral therapies, life expectancy is normal.How were these amazing medicines developed and how have they transformed lives? Why is it so difficult to eradicate HIV or to develop a vaccine to prevent infection? What does the future hold in the quest to stop the global scourge of AIDS?

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Matt Higgins
Year
2026
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health
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