# Marvellous Medicines and How They Changed Humanity

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Matt Higgins
- Year: 2026
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/marvellous-medicines)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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?

## Lectures

1. [Is the HIV Pandemic Over?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-marvellous-medicines/7cf7c4a9a844) (Audio)