INTRODUCTION
Sharon Lewin is the inaugural Director of the Doherty Institute.
Lewin is a distinguishes professor of medicine at the University of Melbourne and practitioner fellow at the renowned national health and medical research council. Lewin is also the current chief investigator of the NHMRC
SUMMARY
Antiretroviral therapy has led some people to now ask whether the end of AIDS is possible. For patients taking therapy and lifelong treatment, AIDS-related illnesses are no longer the primary threat, but a new set of HIV-associated complications have emerged, resulting in a novel chronic disease that for many will span several decades of life.
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Lewin has sought to engage sex workers and others inthese communities in heraims to combat the virus, and to resort to education as a method with which to act against HIV and AIDS. Various methods currently hold great value in the anti HIV war, and these methods, as well as combinations of these methods, become tailorable to respective communities and geographical locations.