AIDS Memorial Quilt Brings HIV History and Community Legacy to UMSOM
For a week in mid-September, sixteen panels from the famous AIDS Memorial Quilt were displayed at UMSOM, helping to connect the University community with the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the people whose lives were lost to HIV/AIDS.
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IHV at 30: Three Decades of Discovery, and a Mission That Reaches Beyond the Lab
When Robert Lewis, PhD, reflects on his decades at the Institute of Human Virology, he returns to a simple idea: the opportunity to take on an important problem and stay with it long enough to make a difference.
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Study Published in AIDS Supports Integrating Chronic Disease Screening into HIV Care for Young Adults
A new study published in the September 2026 issue of AIDS provides new evidence supporting the integration of chronic disease screening into HIV care for adolescents and young adults.
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45 Years After the First AIDS Reports, the Work Is Far From Finished
In 1981, the first published reports of what would become known as AIDS offered a clinical description of a mysterious and devastating illness. They documented what physicians were seeing in their patients, but, as Anthony Amoroso, MD, reflects four and a half decades later, they could not capture the full human experience of an emerging epidemic defined by fear, stigma, and uncertainty.
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Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak Highlights Need for Clear Public Health Communication and Global Disease Preparedness
A new UMSOM commentary published in JAMA Internal Medicine, coauthored by Tara Palmore, MD, offers important lessons about how health officials, scientists, and the media should communicate during emerging disease events.
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‌IHV Research is Leading the Way Toward Innovative Therapies

IHV scientists and researchers are forging new paths in the fight against HIV and AIDS, the deadliest pandemic in modern medical history. The IHV is the first research institute in the U.S. to link basic science, population studies and clinical trials in an effort to develop new vaccines and treatments.

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IHV is Providing Compassionate Cutting-Edge Care

The IHV serves approximately 5,000 patients through six Baltimore area clinics and more than 500,000 patients in seven African and two Caribbean nations. The IHV specializes in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and other chronic viral diseases, such as Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and the Human Papilloma Virus Infection.

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AIDS Memorial Quilt Brings HIV History and Community Legacy to UMSOM

IHV at 30: Three Decades of Discovery, and a Mission That Reaches Beyond the Lab

Study Published in AIDS Supports Integrating Chronic Disease Screening into HIV Care for Young Adults

45 Years After the First AIDS Reports, the Work Is Far From Finished

Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak Highlights Need for Clear Public Health Communication and Global Disease Preparedness

Institute of Human Virology (IHV)

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‌IHV Research is Leading the Way Toward Innovative Therapies

Patient Information

IHV is Providing Compassionate Cutting-Edge Care