This program, Ending the Epidemic: Science Advances on AIDS, brings together leading researchers on the forefront of scientific efforts to understand and attack the virus that causes AIDS.

Moderator Richard Besser is joined by pathologist Susan Zolla-Pazner, biologist David Baltimore, activist Peter Staley, and researcher Robert Grant for a conversation about the early 1980s when AIDS was an unknown killer, the challenges activists and researchers faced trying to convince the federal government to fund the science necessary to rein in the epidemic, and what the future holds as the work towards a cure continues.

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Original Program date: May 31, 2013
MODERATOR: Richard Besser
PARTICIPANTS: Susan Zolla-Pazner, David Baltimore, Jean Ashton, Peter Staley, Robert Grant

AIDS: A Timeline 00:00

Richard Besser's Introduction 5:02

Participant Introductions 6:07

What was it like in the early years? 8:03

The non scientific approach to HIV. 15:20

Public stigma and who gets funding. 20:33

What impact did the protests have on the scientific community? 24:45

The Voices of Aids video part 1. 32:47

Finding a vaccine for Aids, why is it so hard? 37:12

What happens when a clinical trial fails? 44:24

Could drug therapy be used to wipe out HIV? 55:13

What does the funding look like for an Aids Drug? 1:01:59

The Voices of Aids video part 2. 1:07:12

Is an end feasible?1:13:46