 Published: July 2010 This pamphlet provides a snap-shot overview of key information on AIDS vaccine development in a convenient format, covering why an AIDS vaccine is needed, why it is possible to develop one, and how you can contribute to reaching the ultimate goal of finding one. |
 Published: July 2010 Women’s and girls’ increased biological vulnerability to HIV infection, coupled with social and economic inequities, fuel the pandemic in resource-limited nations. This information sheet addresses some of the gender norms and inequalities that impede women’s ability to prevent HIV infection and makes the case for development of an AIDS vaccine as a powerful equity tool. |
 Published: September 2008 This brief, endorsed by 43 partner organizations, examines the critical role of the response to HIV in advancing the Millennium Development Goals as well as the impact that better tools and technologies to prevent HIV transmission could have on the MDGs’ attempts to reduce poverty, hunger, maternal mortality and morbidity and child mortality. |
Published: January 2008 In this issue:
- SPOTLIGHT: Exploring mucosal protection for a mucosal virus: Understanding mucosal immune responses is critical to developing effective AIDS vaccines, but progress has been slow
- GLOBAL NEWS: Cutting Progress?
- PRIMER: Understanding HIV Transmission: What events lead to the sexual transmission of HIV and how can mucosal immune responses protect against infection?: What events lead to the sexual transmission of HIV and how can mucosal immune responses protect against infection?
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Published: October 2008 In this issue:
- SPOTLIGHT: Researchers STEP up to the challenge: Questions linger, but so does determination, at the AIDS Vaccine 2008 conference
- GLOBAL NEWS: New neutralizing antibody research center established; Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of HIV
- PRIMER: Understanding Animal Models of HIV Infection: What are the limitations of the animal models used by researchers to evaluate AIDS vaccine candidates?
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Published: November 2008 In this issue:
- SPOTLIGHT: PrEP Work: If effective, PrEP will offer many opportunities, as well as numerous challenges
- GLOBAL NEWS: IAVI Opens AIDS Vaccine Laboratory in New York City
- PRIMER: Understanding Approaches to Inducing Neutralizing Antibodies: What are some of the novel approaches researchers are exploring to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV?
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Published: February 2008 In this issue:
- SPOTLIGHT: Small loans: Big hopes: Can economic empowerment programs give women the skills and power to reduce their risk of HIV?
- GLOBAL NEWS: Trial results presented at CROI
- PRIMER: Understanding Biostatistics and the STEP Trial: How are statisticians analyzing the data from the STEP trial?
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Published: March 2008 In this issue:
- SPOTLIGHT: When it rains... it pours: A flurry of results from clinical trials of new HIV prevention strategies headline recent conference
- GLOBAL NEWS: Addressing the challenges of HIV prevention trials
- PRIMER: Understanding the Recruitment and Retention of Women in Clinical Trials: What are some of the considerations regarding recruitment and retention of women in AIDS vaccine clinical trials?
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Published: April 2008 In this issue:
- SPOTLIGHT: Balancing the AIDS vaccine budget: Leading AIDS vaccine researchers gather to discuss priorities in AIDS vaccine funding
- GLOBAL NEWS: HIV Vaccines: Progress and Prospects; First Phase I trial of Ad26 vector begins
- PRIMER: Understanding Cellular Immune Responses: What is known about cellular immune responses against HIV?
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Published: May 2008 In this issue:
- SPOTLIGHT: A static epidemic: Improved estimates still show public health efforts have had little success controlling the number of new HIV infections in the US
- GLOBAL NEWS: World AIDS Vaccine Day commemorated
- PRIMER: Understanding the Recruitment of Volunteers at Risk of HIV Infection: Why are volunteers who are at high risk of HIV infection necessary participants in late-stage AIDS vaccine trials?
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