Forum for Collaborative HIV Research

The Forum, founded in 1997, is a public/private partnership addressing cutting edge science and policy issues through a process of stakeholder engagement and deliberation. Its impetus was a request from Vice President Al Gore to convene all stakeholder groups to discuss and discover opportunities for cross-sector dialogue and collaboration at a time when newly approved antiretrovirals -- and a healthy new drug pipeline -- allowed the transition of HIV-infection from a death-and-dying to a chronic disease model.