"[It] is now my responsibility to fulfill that wish:" Clinical and rapid autopsy staff members' experiences and perceptions of HIV reservoir research at the end of life.

Understanding staff members' nuanced emotional and procedural experiences is crucial to the Last Gift study's sustainability and will inform similar cure research studies conducted with people living with HIV at the end of life. The study's potential reproducibility depends on a robust research infrastructure with established, interdependent clinical and rapid autopsy teams, continuous community engagement, and an ethical and well-informed engagement process with people living with HIV.