Battling AIDS Epidemic to Researching HIV Cure | Dr Marcus Conant x Raif Derrazi

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  • Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
  • Marcus A. Conant, MD is a physician who treated thousands of HIV patients in the early 80s while running the inpatient dermatology service at the University of California San Francisco. Before anyone recognized the virus or understood that it was about to become a global epidemic, he took the lead in forming the Kaposi’s Sarcoma Research & Education Foundation in 1982, which later became the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
    Marcus conducted early clinical trials, persevering despite seeing 94% of patients die during the epidemic’s first years. His clinical experience sensitized him to the suffering caused by the disease. As a physician with a holistic perspective, his work expanded beyond the strictly clinical, to include education, research, and advocacy.
    Marcus is currently a clinical professor emeritus at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. He has published more than 70 articles on the treatment of AIDS, testified in front of Congress multiple times, and is a powerful advocate for the LGBTQ community.
    He is currently the Chief Medical Officer at both American Gene Technologies and Addimmune.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 107

  • @JDH3666
    @JDH3666 11 місяців тому +16

    Wow. Your interviews keep getting more powerful and informative. Thank you so much. Raif you have become a godsend to the hiv community. I am the spouse of a hiv positive person. I am negative. We are undetectable for the last decade. It is difficult for a positive person to cope with hiv that is understood but it is also difficult for his partner too. Would love to see you address the spousal / partner side of this issue. Thanks again for the terrific interview and all your efforts

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +4

      Hey, thanks for the love and support. I wish I could say it was all by design but I think the guests themselves are so great they are really elevating the conversations we're having 🙏🏽 You bring up a VERY good point; and yes that's something i'll add to my list to explore. I have to admit, the list is growing faster than I can churn out content.

    • @madness43
      @madness43 11 місяців тому

      Could you please explain ur diet in short and u got negative by madicine or without medicine? Please reply 😢

    • @JDH3666
      @JDH3666 11 місяців тому

      @@madness43 I don’t understand your comment Diet? I was born negative. No medicine.

    • @jomarlabongabalos4914
      @jomarlabongabalos4914 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@RaifDerrazi❤❤❤😢😢😢

  • @jeffreyreed8714
    @jeffreyreed8714 11 місяців тому +11

    Dr. Marcus Conant is the epitome of what anyone would wish for in a doctor! His high level of love and compassion for humanity touches my heart!

  • @ngehtohnain3489
    @ngehtohnain3489 11 місяців тому +12

    HIV +ve people will be the most valuable people on Earth once they're cured. I have learned the true meaning of things just within a short time.
    May the Cure from any Company be sooner than expected.
    I go to bed each day watching tv and wake up to the tv in the morning, hoping for WBREAKING news about HIV CURE

  • @kadalgurun2450
    @kadalgurun2450 11 місяців тому +16

    Do us a favour. find a cure ASAP 🤧 Thank you

  • @cesaroso863
    @cesaroso863 9 місяців тому +3

    Dr. Conant was one of the members of the medical community since late 70s who had real commitment and dedication with the first patients of the first wave of the HIV/Aids pandemic, excellent interview and I'm glad to see that his work continues, despite of all these working decades in research, medical practition and activist labor on the HIV field, now on the development of a possible cure, extraordinary human being. Excellent interview Raif, I would like suggest you another HIV hero since the first years of the epidemic, Dr. Paul Volberding, of the SF General Hospital, would be a great guest for remind us those first days.

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  9 місяців тому +1

      Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve put him in my notes!

  • @eddiesilva3323
    @eddiesilva3323 11 місяців тому +12

    I think it would be interesting in you would be able to speak to patients that lived through the HIV pandemic

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +1

      I'll be sure to follow up with him and with others to share more of those types of stories

  • @brichardsfourty
    @brichardsfourty 11 місяців тому +11

    I am praying for a cure,
    I pray for everyone that’s living with this virus. I pray they can cure everybody so they don’t have HIV anymore. Great video my friend.

  • @figgiepooh81
    @figgiepooh81 10 місяців тому +3

    He's an extraordinary doctor & human being.

  • @markgordon9192
    @markgordon9192 10 місяців тому +1

    I was a staff member at Continuum, Stop AIDS Project, and Marin AIDS Project in the SF Bay Area. Thank you for doing this. It was informative and you really know how to get beyond the surface. Excellent and happy to have discovered you. I'm subscribing now!

  • @wolfbear7
    @wolfbear7 11 місяців тому +5

    Thank You Raif. I am 68 years old and so I saw this all from the beginning. My ex was vice president of the Gay Activists Alliance in NYC when I met him in 1976. I have so many stories from many perspectives since I was married to a woman who was becoming a cardiac surgeon who knew I was very bisexual years before we got married. She died of AIDS in 1987 after we had divorced and she did not get it from me, thank God. People tell me I need to write about so many aspects of my life that are stranger than fiction. Any way I thank you for what you're doing and for the fact you care.

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +1

      Thanks for sharing! i can only imagine the countless stories that people have during that time. I'm glad you are alive and well! And thanks for the support for my channel 🙏🏽

  • @rafaelorona1395
    @rafaelorona1395 11 місяців тому +7

    This has been the most amazing interview, so insightful, so touching, so informative. That man is a hero!

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +2

      He’s amazing. I didn’t get to fully take it in until I was editing it and I was very moved

  • @jjhall1963
    @jjhall1963 11 місяців тому +5

    Hi, I would love to discuss the aspects of AIDS/HIV. I am from St. Petersburg Florida (SF Now) and have been HIV+ for over 40 years. I would like to discuss my experience with HIV through the years. Insurance issues, DDC from Mexico, wives and children getting HIV from husbands, sex workers with HIV having babies over and over, and many people who did not meet qualifications for treatment. Also, the loving support and the wonderful people who have died. Warriors, teachers, and loving friends. The stigma of having HIV. The list goes on.

  • @xavierlastra7124
    @xavierlastra7124 11 місяців тому +8

    AT first I took a medication called Gemoya after that biktarvi ,,,,after that Dovato and now one inyection every month.....Steps are being taken,,,,,Everything will come sooner that later,,,,,,Nice to see you again Raif,,,,,,😘😘 from Spain...

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +1

      Thanks for sharing! I’ve been on a similar advancement. I started further back with some older medications. Eventually landed on Genvoya, then Biktarvy, now talking to my ID specialist about switching to Dovato 😉

  • @EuropopTop
    @EuropopTop 11 місяців тому +3

    What a great guest! A champion. Thank you

  • @davidbrown5628
    @davidbrown5628 11 місяців тому +25

    I would give my life savings to anyone who found a cure and I'm very sure I wouldn't be the only one to say that.

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +9

      Hopefully you won’t have to 🙏🏽

    • @noname-tk4is
      @noname-tk4is 10 місяців тому

      The london patient got cured!!.. But big pharmas want to continue making millions😢

    • @fransgolden1068
      @fransgolden1068 9 місяців тому

      Big pharma won’t give up there money for acure.

    • @noname-tk4is
      @noname-tk4is 9 місяців тому

      @@fransgolden1068 2 patients have been completely cured of the virus so a cure doesn’t seem to far fetched but big pharmaceutical companies want to continue making billions smfh 😓

    • @Littlegiant1234
      @Littlegiant1234 9 місяців тому

      Only By Our Good and Merciful Father God Grace By sending His One and only Begotten Son Our Good and Merciful Savior Jesus Christ to die On The Cross For Our Inequities and sinful ways when we were yet sinner and we will never ever deserve it Still without Sin Our Good Merciful Lord and Savior Jesus Christ died For Our Inequities and sinful ways ♥️💖😞🙏So Only By Our Good Merciful Father God Grace by Showering His Amazing Grace towards human being Only then human beings can Find The Cure and Saved all of Us Even though we will never ever deserve it Only By His abounding Love and Amazing Grace we can ever be Saved ♥️ All Praise And Glory To Our Good and Merciful Savior Jesus Christ For His unending love and Amazing Grace towards a wretched sinner like me 💔😔

  • @eddieyeoh4098
    @eddieyeoh4098 11 місяців тому +2

    Amazing interview and a salute for bringing on such an eminent speaker! Some really moving and hard hitting narratives!! News of the ultimate cure would be great but in the meantime people currently living with HIV to continue having a good quality of life is just as important!! Thanks for your hard work!!

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому

      Exactly, well said! While cure is important it shouldn't be our desperate focus day-to-day. it's time to live in the present and make the most of our lives!

  • @okimlistening2u
    @okimlistening2u 11 місяців тому +3

    Raif and Dr. Conant, you are two shining lights in a very dark world today. You give me hope and encouragement to continue fighting the good fight through education of the young. So many young people today are still without the toxic stigma that society imposes on them for sexually transmitted disease. I think education is the answer to keep them safe from that toxicity that destroys their spirit. Thank you so much for who you are and what you do..............Ray

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому

      Thank you Ray, as always! Happy you're watching

  • @MichaelK...
    @MichaelK... 11 місяців тому +2

    Great job Raif! You inspire me to move forward with my HIV related videos. ❤

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому

      Absolutely, please do! We need more!

  • @jaysondomondon1012
    @jaysondomondon1012 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you Dr. Marcus and Raif,. May the god bless u more to continue this,.

  • @Lusanda_Ntlangano
    @Lusanda_Ntlangano 11 місяців тому +12

    Wow, this is promising. I know at first it'll be expensive but as long as it is permanent. Hopefully it'll be a permanent cure

  • @ihackapple2525
    @ihackapple2525 11 місяців тому +5

    We are so close if this is successful its gonna change millions and millions of people lifes 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

  • @Prc205
    @Prc205 11 місяців тому +6

    That was fantastic, what an amazing guy. 👌❤️

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +1

      Right? So generous with his story and perspective

    • @Prc205
      @Prc205 11 місяців тому

      @@RaifDerrazi absolutely.👌

  • @mpat100
    @mpat100 4 місяці тому

    Blessings and good health for all living with HIV

  • @SundayBoy72
    @SundayBoy72 11 місяців тому +1

    Great insight. The guest is wonderful. Such a kind soul and warrior. ❤️❤️❤️ wonder if we are able to get any speaker from another Asia country, maybe, Singapore 😙

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +1

      Thank you Tan. Yea, I was surprised where the conversation went but appreciated it VERY much. It's definitely in my 'to do' to find and chat with more representatives from Asian countries....as well as Africa, and the Middle East and South America 🙏🏽

  • @albertuslaurensiusnicolao4295
    @albertuslaurensiusnicolao4295 10 місяців тому +2

    Fantastic news may the good Lord give you strength to follow through in finding a cure for hiv. Will all counties all over the world benefit from this

  • @andrewgurney03031976
    @andrewgurney03031976 11 місяців тому +4

    Keep researching. ❤

  • @Robinredbreast
    @Robinredbreast 11 місяців тому

    Brilliant interview and unexpectedly highlighting the awful social stigma back then. Please find an expert to talk about hiv and chronic inflammation.

  • @andrewgurney03031976
    @andrewgurney03031976 11 місяців тому

    @raifderrazi could you find out what else is the ccr5 receptor utilised for by the cell please. 🤞

  • @carlitoshoway
    @carlitoshoway 11 місяців тому +4

    The new generation of man in the USA think that this is over. Silly to think I was one of them. UNGA Science Summit, should elevate this topics in the upcoming event. The UN in partnership with the cdc should elevate this as an global emergency and suggests mandatory checkups in persue on global health and security. I just venting, and provably is already done.

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому

      A lot of organizations around the world have seen a de-prioritization of funding and attention since the covid pandemic. so your calls for refocusing are much needed

  • @t.r.9542
    @t.r.9542 11 місяців тому +1

    this video brought me right back to the eighties.... what a scary period... and also so much fun...and so much tears...

  • @kevinluis7445
    @kevinluis7445 11 місяців тому +2

    I hope, i will cure soon.. amen 🙏🙏
    No need medicine

  • @balajithakor6291
    @balajithakor6291 11 місяців тому +1

    Good luck ❤❤❤ sir 🤞🤞🤞

  • @jimleopard8869
    @jimleopard8869 11 місяців тому +5

    My name is Jim
    I live in a rural setting in Oklahoma
    I tested positive in 2006
    I am on Cabenuva
    My viral load is undetected
    My cd4 count is over 1300
    Love your videos

    • @jaydeepkori9211
      @jaydeepkori9211 11 місяців тому +1

      Are you taken any medicine between 2006 to till now???😊

    • @MichaelK...
      @MichaelK... 11 місяців тому

      ua-cam.com/video/yl2CAlowOOY/v-deo.html

    • @wansumarsungoh6527
      @wansumarsungoh6527 11 місяців тому

      Are you taking any other meds

    • @ramsimgh160
      @ramsimgh160 11 місяців тому

      ​@@jaydeepkori9211aap kha se ho

    • @jimleopard8869
      @jimleopard8869 11 місяців тому +1

      I was on Atripla before
      No other meds but Cabenuva now

  • @dinkohrvat344
    @dinkohrvat344 9 місяців тому

    Dr Conant mentions he does not know how long the treatment will last when talking about cost. That suggests it will work like a long term neutralising antibody and not a functional cure. The trials in California will be very interesting .

  • @myyoutube5m491
    @myyoutube5m491 11 місяців тому +1

    Waiting for new videoo😢

  • @maloz_pasoz8429
    @maloz_pasoz8429 9 місяців тому

    Hey do you know anyone with hiv and hsv co infection ? If so how are they dealing with it?

  • @MustafaYlmaz-ri6qv
    @MustafaYlmaz-ri6qv 10 місяців тому

    My idea in order to cure is like that:
    Virus mutates a lot. We need to stop its mutation at least on its surface protein antigens. If we can force the virus to produce same antigen on its surface via an mRNA vaccine or a drug and wait till all viruses has same antigen on their surfaces and after that to the patient we can give specific antibodies in order to demolish viruses because anymore they expressed same specific antigens on its surfaces.

  • @annettecasimir9272
    @annettecasimir9272 10 місяців тому

    The Red Rose 🌹 petals put to boil until the petals turn white drink warm is good for your heart, Stroke and Aids

  • @ragavenragav2576
    @ragavenragav2576 10 місяців тому +1

    Hiv cure medicine when expect?

  • @FlavioMarceloSousa35
    @FlavioMarceloSousa35 11 місяців тому +2

    Any thoughts on re-infection? If you're on ART and get re-infected with a different strain of HIV, will that neutralize your medication? Very disturbing. :(

  • @nilam4690
    @nilam4690 9 місяців тому

    Can i treat hiv private doctor medicine available in chemist

  • @frantzaugustin1117
    @frantzaugustin1117 11 місяців тому +3

    Do u think they could be working on a herpes cure as well or does the hiv cure defeats the herpes already???????

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +1

      AGT might be researching that but that's not something I've asked about

    • @Mr.Majestic77
      @Mr.Majestic77 11 місяців тому +1

      ​​​​@@RaifDerrazihave you reached out to Excision BioTherapeutics CEO Daniel Dornbusch and Excision BioTherapeutics' EBT-101 developer Dr. Kamel Khalili?
      While Addimmune's AGT103-T has had recent successes in their phase 1 clinical human trials, and AGT103-T will be a functional HIV therapeutic cure, Excision Bio-Therapeutics' EBT-101will be an HIV sterilizing therapeutic cure.
      Excision BioTherapeutics received an FDA Fast Track Designation for EBT-101, which means the phase trials for EBT-101 will be expedited. Human clinical trials are currently being conducted for EBT-101.

  • @aysesefiloglu747
    @aysesefiloglu747 11 місяців тому +2

    Lütfen kesin tedavi bulun🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏

  • @praveennayak3464
    @praveennayak3464 11 місяців тому +1

    Hiv cure expectations year sir 🥺

  • @deejaygeorgeous
    @deejaygeorgeous 11 місяців тому +1

    How are we Africans gonna afford that cost? (In case it's in thousands of dollars) we barely afford our daily basics.. Jeff Galvin should find a way to bring the costs down and also bring cure out soon cuz people are dying, losing hope and start taking life for granted..

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +3

      I think at the least in the beginning, government organizations, NGOs etc will have to get involved and support through funding to make it accessible around the globe. Supply might also be a constraint for some time just as there are supply constrains with long-acting injectables currently.

  • @jbalam
    @jbalam 5 місяців тому

    Only the rich will be able to achieve it and the rest? Apparently the pharmaceutical companies are not going to release this influx of money, in order to get rich

  • @johngibson.youhavesuchachi3084
    @johngibson.youhavesuchachi3084 11 місяців тому +3

    Having a diagnosis in 2018and RITA showed recent infection.on Biktarvy and remain undetectable. Keep fit,eat well and exercise, go to gym. I was under the impression that I will live a healthy and fulfilling life, but listening to this saying HIV positive people have chronic inflammation and 3 times more likely to get cancer I, back at the depressing start of my acceptance of being HIV pisitive

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому +3

      don't allow additonal information here or there derail you so easily. you and your actions/behavior are the biggest contributor to your overall health. Every person on this planet has risk factors they need to be aware of. my goal is to make us aware of the things that matter to us so we have the power to act accordingly

    • @EuropopTop
      @EuropopTop 11 місяців тому

      I hear you. There is sometimes conflicting information

  • @GodstimeMiracle5yz
    @GodstimeMiracle5yz Місяць тому

    Thank you Dr Obulor on UA-cam for helping me get Rid of HIV totally, I so much thank & respectful to you sir💛💛

  • @GameHEADtime
    @GameHEADtime 11 місяців тому +2

    Add immune said they’re going public! Today got the email I’m buying stock like crazy!

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  11 місяців тому

      Oh yes, I saw that. Very interesting, eh? I'll be sure to include that in the weekly news roundup

    • @birukumar9083
      @birukumar9083 11 місяців тому

      Vaccine is ready sir I'm Indian

  • @myyoutube5m491
    @myyoutube5m491 11 місяців тому

    When we will get this gene therapy😊

  • @vikramjain9778
    @vikramjain9778 11 місяців тому +1

    Bro when we found hiv cure my bro is deprations we hope in usa

    • @zoramparadise6921
      @zoramparadise6921 5 місяців тому

      Is it really true? Have you tested and if so, what was the result?

  • @pasmartventures3532
    @pasmartventures3532 11 місяців тому +1

    I think Elon musk will not have a problem of paying for that,

  • @rameshyadav-dk3qr
    @rameshyadav-dk3qr 11 місяців тому +2

    Hiv cure medicine vachidha

    • @saiyakkala5251
      @saiyakkala5251 11 місяців тому

      When will cure hic

    • @rameshyadav-dk3qr
      @rameshyadav-dk3qr 11 місяців тому

      @@saiyakkala5251 eppudu vastudha medicine

    • @saiyakkala5251
      @saiyakkala5251 11 місяців тому

      ​@@rameshyadav-dk3qrvastundi thwaralo meru ekkada untaru

    • @rameshyadav-dk3qr
      @rameshyadav-dk3qr 11 місяців тому

      @@saiyakkala5251 madhi Rajahmundry andrapradesh

  • @Retroeramusic
    @Retroeramusic 3 місяці тому

    I think, should be a separate country for hiv+ people❤

    • @RaifDerrazi
      @RaifDerrazi  3 місяці тому +1

      Fortunately for the world that’s not ur decision to make 🙏🏽

  • @hivaidsprevention
    @hivaidsprevention 9 місяців тому

    Marcus conducted early clinical trials, persevering despite seeing 94% of patients die during the epidemic’s first years. His clinical experience sensitized him to the suffering caused by the disease

  • @GodstimeMiracle5yz
    @GodstimeMiracle5yz Місяць тому

    Thank you Dr Obulor on UA-cam for helping me get Rid of HIV totally, I so much thank & respectful to you sir💛💛

  • @GodstimeMiracle5yz
    @GodstimeMiracle5yz Місяць тому

    Thank you Dr Obulor on UA-cam for helping me get Rid of HIV totally, I so much thank & respectful to you sir💛💛