David Da-i Ho is a Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher, physician, and virologist who has made a number of scientific contributions to the understanding and treatment of HIV infection.
World Community Grid (WCG) is an effort to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle scientific research projects that benefit humanity. Launched on November 16, 2004, it is co-ordinated by IBM with client software currently available for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android operating systems.
Anthony Stephen Fauci is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. Since January 2020, he has been one of the lead members of the Trump administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and in January 2021, he will further assume the role of Chief Medical Advisor to the President in the Biden administration. Fauci is one of the world's leading experts on infectious diseases, and during the early stages of the pandemic, The New Yorker and The New York Times described Fauci as one of the most trusted medical figures in the United States.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international financing and partnership organization that aims to "attract, leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to support attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations". This multistakeholder international organization maintains its secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization began operations in January 2002. Microsoft founder Bill Gates was one of the first private foundations among many bilateral donors to provide seed money for the partnership.
Francisco León Barrios, known as Paco León, is a Spanish actor, producer, director, screenwriter and activist from Seville, Andalusia. Beginning as a comedy performer, he rose to prominence on channel Antena 3 with sketch show Homo Zapping, and in Aída, playing the main character Luisma. He gained more prominence for portraying María José Riquelme in the Netflix series The House of Flowers, and writing, directing, and starring as Manolo in Movistar's Arde Madrid. He is also a prominent campaigner for HIV/AIDS causes.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine is a public medical school located in Birmingham, Alabama, United States with branch campuses in Huntsville, Montgomery, and at the University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences in Tuscaloosa. Residency programs are also located in Selma, Huntsville and Montgomery. It is part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, known professionally as Ignacio Cirac, is a Spanish physicist. He is one of the pioneers of the field of quantum computing and quantum information theory. He is the recipient of the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award in technical and scientific research.
Mark R. Dybul is an American diplomat, physician and medical researcher. He served as the executive director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria from 2012 until 2017.
Robert Ray Redfield Jr. is an American virologist. He is the current director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the current administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, having served in both positions since March 2018.
The Catholic Church is a major provider of medical care to HIV/AIDS patients. Much of its work takes place in developing countries, although it has also had a presence in the global north. Its opposition to condoms, despite their effectiveness in preventing the spread of HIV, has invited criticism from public health officials and anti-AIDS activists.
HIV Resistance Response Database Initiative (RDI) is a not-for-profit organisation established in 2002 with the following mission:
Pierre Kilebou M'Pelé is an African public health personality, HIV/AIDS and Tropical disease specialist, and former WHO Country Representative. Since July 2017, he has been the Mercy Ships Africa Bureau Director.
Dr. Allan R. Ronald is a Canadian doctor and microbiologist. He has been instrumental in the investigation into sexually transmitted infections in Africa, particularly in the fields of HIV/AIDS. Ronald is the recipient of multiple awards and honours.
Pedro L. Alonso, is a physician, epidemiologist, and researcher in diseases that affect vulnerable populations. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, his work focuses mainly on malaria, although he has also studied other infectious diseases. Since 2014, he serves as the Director of the Global Malaria Programme at the World Health Organization.
Oriol Mitjà i Villar is a Catalan-born Spanish researcher and consultant physician in internal medicine and infectious diseases with expertise in poverty-related tropical diseases. He has conducted research at the Lihir Medical Centre in Papua New Guinea since 2010 on new diagnostic and therapeutic tools to eradicate yaws. He was awarded the Princess of Girona Award in the scientific research category. Currently at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute, Mitjà is conducting research on SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and strategies to control the infection at a community level.
Minoo Mohraz is an Iranian physician, researcher and AIDS specialist. She is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences and head of the Iranian Centre for HIV/AIDS. Mohraz has been considered to be Iran's foremost medical expert on HIV/AIDS.
Robert "Chip" T. Schooley is an American infectious disease physician, who is the Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Senior Director of International Initiatives, and Co-Director at the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH), at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He is an expert in HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) infection and treatment, and in 2016, was the first physician to treat a patient in the United States with intravenous bacteriophage therapy for a systemic bacterial infection.
YR Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education is a not for profit organisation in India working in the domain of HIV/AIDS. The organisation was founded by Dr Suniti Solomon in 1993. As reported in 2018, YRG Care had provided HIV prevention and treatment related services to about 21,000 people in India who were infected by HIV. After Dr Suniti Solomon died, Dr Sunil Solomon leads YRG Care.
Andrew Ullmann is a German physician and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.
Ih-Jen Su is a Taiwanese medical researcher and distinguished investigator and was the director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan.
