Panel Detail
Saturday, September 8, 2012
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
HIV/AIDS: Yesterday's Progress, Tomorrow's Promise
Speakers:
Moises Agosto, Director of Treatment Education, Adherence, and Mobilization, National Minority AIDS Council
Dawn Averitt Bridge, Founder and Chair, The Well Project; Founder, National HIV Awareness Month
Timothy Ray Brown, "The Berlin Patient"; Founder, The Timothy Ray Brown Foundation of the World AIDS Institute
Sharon Hillier, Professor, Department of OB/GYN, University of Pittsburgh
Sharon Hillier will present on the progress we've made in HIV research since the first reported infection in the early 1980s. As she walks the audience through some of the most important research milestones, three individuals who have been affected by HIV will share their individual stories of survival and advocacy.