XIX International AIDS Conference. Session focusing on the scientific strategies in HIV cure research, ethical questions in clinical HIV cure trials and the patient benefits of those clinical trials. The panel members are scientists and physicians, activists and long-term survivors.

Sten Vermund from University of Alabama reflects on the history of the global AIDS epidemic and his involvement in the field as a young scientist in the 80's. He discusses the social and economic factors of HIV/AIDS, such as stigma, poverty and the drug industry.