Acceptability of Cell and Gene Therapy for Curing HIV Infection Among People Living with HIV in the Northwestern United States: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: Multiple strategies to cure HIV infection are under investigation, including cell and gene therapy (C>) approaches. Research, and ultimately treatment, with these novel strategies will require patients' willingness to participate. To elicit the perspectives of people living with HIV specific to these novel approaches, we conducted 4 focus group discussions with a diverse group of 19 English-speaking men and women living with HIV in care at a large academic HIV clinic in the northwestern United States. Thematic analysis indicated participants expressed initial fear about C> research. They articulated specific concerns about risks, including analytical treatment interruptions, and thought only a person in desperate straits would participate. They voiced significant mistrust of research i

SUBMITTER: Dube K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6602097 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature