Demetre Daskalakis on the quest for an HIV vaccine

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this conversation recorded for Washington Post Live on Feb. 22, Demetre Daskalakis, a career HIV specialist and advocate currently acting as the deputy coordinator for the White House National Monkeypox Response, speaks about the search for an HIV vaccine, the role stigma plays in viruses propagating and whether eradicating HIV is possible in the near future.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan K. Part and welcome to K-PART. On February 22nd, Washington Post's live hosted a
0:06.5	series of conversations on the quest for an HIV vaccine. That very morning, the New York Times reported
0:13.6	on a study that recommended those with MPOX should also be tested for HIV. This was great timing,
0:21.0	because my conversation was with Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, the deputy coordinator for the White House
0:27.2	National Monkey Pock's response. Pock's does not live in isolation. It interacts with other
0:32.5	infections as well as sort of social circumstances that makes those infections worse and impacts
0:39.0	communities. And Dr. Daskalakis talks more extensively about those social circumstances,
0:44.7	including the role stigma plays in propagating both viruses and whether we will achieve the goal
0:50.8	of eradicating HIV and AIDS by 2030.
0:58.6	So you are on loan from the CDC, where you are the director of the division of HIV prevention at
1:04.4	the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and we will talk about HIV specifically in a moment.
1:10.4	But there's a story in the New York Times today that brings the two monkey pox for those who
1:16.8	are not initiated is now MPOX. The link between MPOX and HIV that people who have MPOX should also
1:25.8	be tested for HIV. Talk about the significance of this story. Sure. So the significance really is
1:30.8	one about interacting epidemics that are made worse by social determinants of health. We've heard a
1:35.8	lot about that today. That's called a syndemic. And so MPOX does not live in isolation. It interacts
1:42.2	with other infections as well as sort of social circumstances that makes those infections worse
1:47.8	and impacts communities. So I'll say back in September of last year, there was a publication from CDC
1:56.4	that showed that 41% of people who were diagnosed with MPOX were also living with HIV. In October,
2:04.0	another publication came out from CDC and MMWR that really focused on the 57 severe cases that
2:10.5	they heard about hospitalized individuals. And at that time, what they found was that over 80% of
2:16.0	them were living with HIV. Only 10% of them were taking antiretroviral medications. And many,
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