Infectious diseases

Research on HIV/AIDS

Dr. Ram Yogev says Children’s Memorial’s 20-year history of participating in clinical trials make it possible for patients to receive the latest HIV medications before they reach the market. Read more.

Currently, researchers at Children's Memorial are involved in many ongoing clinical trials that focus on different treatment aspects of individuals affected by HIV. Some of the current research going on at Children's Memorial Hospital involves:

• Working with immune modulators that focuses on boosting the body's immune response.
• Investigating the response to routine vaccination in patients with HIV to achieve a better response.
• Designing potent and easily managed treatment regimens to decrease the rate of opportunistic infections.
• Changing the factors involved in transmission of HIV between mother and infant (vertical transmission of HIV)
• Modulating treatment regimens and diet to facilitate normal cognitive (mental) and physiological (body weight and size) growth.

For more information regarding these particular research projects and other ongoing projects, please contact:

Ram Yogev, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases
Children's Memorial Hospital
2300 Children's Plaza, #155
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: 312.227.6280

You can also refer to the following articles about additional research being carried out at Children's Memorial:

• Evidence that circumcision could be protecting men from HIV infection, as reported by the BBC.
• A factor normally found in human placentas that blocks the AIDS virus in laboratory studies and may naturally protect most fetuses from getting the virus from their mothers, as reported by Newsday.