URMC Resources

HIV and AIDS Treatment Studies at URMC

URMC’s AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) Clinical Research Site is housed in UR Medicine’s Infectious Diseases Clinic. The clinic is located on the 3rd floor of the Ambulatory Care Center. A member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, which oversees research and training in 12 countries, the research team of doctors, nurses and staff provide supportive care for people living with HIV while working to expand the range of treatments available to patients.

People living with HIV can access healthcare services at URMC’s AIDS Center, also located at Strong Memorial Hospital. The AIDS Center has been providing the highest level of care to patients with HIV since the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s.

National/Int’l Resources

HIV/AIDS Network Coordination

The Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC) works with the HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the intent of creating a more integrated, collaborative and flexible research structure. The networks are an affiliated group of national and international medical research institutions and investigators that conduct clinical HIV/AIDS research to develop safe and effective drugs, prevention strategies, and vaccines.

AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) is an international non-profit organization that uses education, policy analysis, advocacy, and community mobilization to accelerate the ethical development and eventual global delivery of AIDS vaccines and other new HIV prevention options as part of a comprehensive response to the pandemic.

The Body

The Body is a service of Body Health Resources Corporation. The Body’s mission is to use the Web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians; demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment; improve patient’s quality of life; and foster community through human connection.

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) is an international non-profit organization that uses education, policy analysis, advocacy, and community mobilization to accelerate the ethical development and eventual global delivery of AIDS vaccines and other new HIV prevention options as part of a comprehensive response to the pandemic.