SPIRAL. Integrated Interventions to Achieve Durable HIV Control in Diverse Populations

This project addresses the urgent need to develop safe, affordable, and globally accessible strategies for HIV cure. Currently, we do not know what integrated interventions are needed to achieve durable HIV control. Additionally, we do not have a comprehensive understanding of contextual barriers, facilitators, and perspectives of stakeholders for implementation. In this interdisciplinary project, biomedical researchers, clinicians, social scientists, health economists, and communication specialists will work equitably with low and middle‐income countries and industry partners to work toward developing an HIV cure for all. ​

Finding an HIV cure is a global priority for global health, and it would free millions of people currently living with the virus from having to take lifelong medication and associated social stigma. This project bring together scientists from different disciplines and people living with HIV in the Netherlands and Africa to make important steps together toward a future cure.