Rochester Victory Alliance

12/12/2025

'Tis the season — for Otetia and Allie adding holiday spirit to our clinic!

May the coming days bring joy to you, too, with celebration that fills *your* spirit 🩵

12/12/2025

“Separate the culture issues from the science and get the job done —”

AMEN, Dr. Valenti.

And congratulations on another well-deserved award!

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Dr. William Valenti, a prominent figure in Rochester’s medical community, received the New York State Liberty Medal and the key to the city. The honors were presented at Trillium Health’s World AIDS Day celebration at the Hyatt Regency Rochester.Dr. Valenti was recognized for...

12/11/2025

What fantastic news for Rochester's AIDS Remembrance Garden! This grant will help restore the Garden to its original glory and beyond.

And a shout out to Nick Wilbur, South East Area Coalition, Highland Park Conservancy, Friends of Rochester's AIDS Remembrance Garden at Highland Park and the many individuals who've dug in over the years to help keep the garden going. Every w**d pulled, every shovel turned made a difference! 🌳🌼

12/02/2025

“Seven people with HIV were able to control the virus without medication for *several months* — and in one case for more than a year — after undergoing complex immune therapy.”

This is one of three hopeful reports released yesterday (World AIDS Day!), indicating researchers are honing in on cures for HIV infection.

Seven of 10 volunteers kept HIV at bay for months after stopping meds, a rare result scientists call a major step toward a functional cure.

12/02/2025

On , we mark the many ways URochester has advanced the fight against HIV/AIDS.

In 1981, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry alumnus Michael Gottlieb became the first physician to identify and describe the disease. Our River Campus Libraries hold one of the world’s largest collections of HIV/AIDS posters and visual resources. And the work continues through the Rochester Victory Alliance, among the first five clinics worldwide dedicated to HIV vaccine research.

12/01/2025

When your new HIV study nurse arrives decked out in red scrubs for World AIDS Day, you know you've made a good choice. *

Today, we handed out mini AIDS poster cards and other goodies to folks here at URMC. When the CDC and NIH are forbidden from acknowledging , it is doubly important for us to remind people that the virus continues to exist.

Happily, research to find a vaccine also continues, here and around the world; prevention and treatment options are ever expanding.

*We're excited to have Sally Thomas on the team, and we'll post a fuller introduction later this week!

12/01/2025

In these challenging times, we must come together to rethink our approach, rebuild health systems, and rise to protect science, equity and progress.

* Rethink Rebuild Rise *

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11/29/2025

Science meets style!

At New York Fashion Week back in September, design students joined with HIV researchers to fashion finery inspired by the molecular makeup of the virus and the strength of people living with it.

This special premieres in time for World AIDS Day:

📺Sunday night (Nov 30) on Hulu, and/or
📺8:00 p.m. ET Monday night (Dec 1) on ABC Owned Television Stations’ Localish Network

‘HIV Unwrapped’ brought Parsons designers and HIV scientists together at NYFW to fight stigma with fashion and storytelling.

11/26/2025

We're thankful to be here, still working with wonderful researchers and volunteers advancing HIV vaccine science forward. From all of us at Rochester Victory Alliance: Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

11/25/2025

Just in time for Thanksgiving — the scientific answer to the question "Should I brine my turkey, or not?"

Should you brine your turkey? Why do mashed potatoes get glue-y? Cookbook author Kenji López-Alt tackles the science behind thanksgiving.

11/24/2025

Visual AIDS, based in NYC, is partnering with Dryden Theatre! This event explores the experiences of people using drugs and the harm reduction efforts to protect them from HIV infection, through six videos produced in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, and Vietnam.

The show screens at 2 pm this coming Sunday, November 30, and is presented at no charge.

Special Presentation The Dryden Theatre is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 by presenting Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.

11/21/2025

One similarity: “HIV seems to hang out in the brain and gut, and we’re seeing the same patterns with long COVID.”

The search for long-COVID treatments echoes the previous struggles against HIV/AIDS. Now researchers are taking lessons from those breakthroughs to make new progress.