The End of HIV? Dr. Seema Yasmin

Does this mark the end of the HIV epidemic? Here in the United States, infections are on the rise in some communities, while doctors in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa struggle to provide HIV patients with medication. What is the future of HIV? How close are we to a cure, and have we come this close before?
On April 16th, Dr. Seema Yasmin, a Stanford professor, visits Kepler’s Literary Foundation to offer insights about the trajectory of the HIV pandemic. Yasmin’s most recent book, The Impatient Dr. Lange, is a stunning account of the last-best effort to cure HIV/AIDS by a doctor who was killed on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 when the plane was shot out of the sky by pro-Russian rebels in 2014. Dr. Lange died before his work to cure HIV was completed:
“The Impatient Dr. Lange is two things. It is first of all a thrilling history of the investigation of one of the greatest plagues in human history, written by a scientist who intimately understands the challenge that the HIV epidemic posed to humanity. It is also a eulogy for a great scientist, written by his younger protégé. These two strands combine for wonderful reading.”— Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker
Join this award-winning journalist, poet, doctor and author whose experience has kept her on the frontlines of one of the biggest medical questions of this year: Is a cure for HIV in sight?