ArticleJournal of virus eradication2019
Revisiting the 'sterilising cure' terminology: a call for more patient-centred perspectives on HIV cure-related research.
Article in Journal of virus eradication, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Time for a globally unified chronic HBV terminology?JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2025Review
- Envisioning a Multidisciplinary HBV Cure Research Agenda.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2025Review
- Integrating socio-behavioral, ethics, community, and translational science considerations in HIV cure research.Current opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2025Review
- Matters Arising: on the willingness to trade-off years of life for an HIV cure.AIDS research and therapy · 2025Article
- Willingness of Older Canadians with HIV to Participate in HIV Cure Research Near and After the End of Life: A Mixed-Method Study.AIDS research and human retroviruses · 2022Article
- Ethics of HIV cure research: an unfinished agenda.BMC medical ethics · 2021Review
- Unwillingness of patients in Ghana to interrupt antiretroviral therapy for HIV cure research.Journal of virus eradication · 2021Article
- Re-examining the HIV 'functional cure' oxymoron: Time for precise terminology?Journal of virus eradication · 2020Article
- Applying the Behavioural and Social Sciences Research (BSSR) Functional Framework to HIV Cure Research.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2019Review
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Abstract
The literature on HIV therapeutics research is rife with terminology associating 'sterilisation' with HIV cure. We find connotations of the word 'sterilising' problematic for the HIV cure research field. In this viewpoint, we review associations of sterilising with concepts of disinfection or cleansing, as well as coerced sterilisation. We discuss emerging findings from socio-behavioural research that show aversion from people living with HIV towards the 'sterilising cure' nomenclature. We call for more collaborations with people with HIV as partners to help define what would be a more acceptable terminology for describing an HIV cure.
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