What started back in 1983, as the first NIH-funded research regarding the virus that became known as HIV, the Pitt Men’s Study continues to evolve. Now entering their 40th year of dedicated research, the study looks back at the long road that got us to where we are today as well as looking ahead to an eventual cure.
Find out more in the Pitt Men’s Study 40th Anniversary Newsletter.
Clinic coordinator Bill Buchanan: “None of it would have been possible without the volunteers.”
From the Summer 2019 newsletter…
The origin of the study can be traced to 1982, when University of Pittsburgh researcher Dr. Charles Rinaldo met with a young gay medical student named David Lyter to discuss the opportunistic infections that were killing gay and bisexual men. From this came the Pilot Study, which formed the basis for a 1983 National Institutes of Health grant application that created the Pitt Men’s Study, part of the national Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) with additional sites in Los Angeles, Chicago and Baltimore.
“The study’s longevity is due to the incredible response from the community to one of the major health crises of our time,” says PMS clinic coordinator William Buchanan. “None of it would have been possible without the volunteers.”