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  • We Need an HIV Vaccine. Here’s What You Can Do to Help

    First celebrated in 1998, a little more than a decade after the launch of the very first HIV vaccine study, HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD), observed each May 18, is an opportunity to spotlight the ongoing global efforts to develop a safe and effective vaccine against HIV.

    May 18, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    HIV Plus Mag

  • There’s No Hidden US Vaccine Stockpile Ready to Send Abroad

    America led the world in buying up the messenger RNA vaccines that have proven most effective against COVID-19. It’s now starting to lead the world in not using them.

    May 15, 2021
    General
    Bloomberg

  • RV144: The Largest HIV Vaccine Trial in History

    In a little under a year, scientists developed several vaccines against COVID-19. But as we line up for our shots, we are still living in the shadow of another pandemic. The search for a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been ongoing for nearly four decades. To this day, only one large-scale trial has demonstrated even marginal efficacy at preventing infection from the virus: the RV144 trial in Thailand—the largest HIV vaccine trial in history.

    May 8, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    JSTOR Daily

  • NGO Cries Out Over 100,000 Daily HIV Infection Rate

    A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Heartland Alliance, has expressed worry about the alarming HIV infections in Nigeria, currently at 100,000 per day. Mr. Michael Akanji, a resource person, speaking at a media roundtable organised by the NGO and the AVAC 2020/2021 Fellowship Programme at the weekend in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, decried the continued high rating of Akwa Ibom in HIV Prevalence Rating in the country.

    May 3, 2021
    PrEP
    The Nation

  • Scientists Say the Technology Behind COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Could Be Adapted to an HIV Vaccine

    The COVID-19 pandemic has lasted only slightly more than a year; the AIDS epidemic, by contrast, now spans decades. Just as AIDS has taken more than 670,000 lives in this country, scientists have long dreamed of a day when they could inoculate the population against HIV, the virus which causes the deadly disease.

    April 9, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    Salon

  • Can Unprecedented Success in COVID Vaccine Development Boost Prospects for an HIV Vaccine?

    In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN 702, or Uhambo, was halted for lack of efficacy. Researchers and advocates had high hopes for Uhambo, building as it did on the RV144 trial, which provided the first evidence that an HIV vaccine could create a partially protective immune response. But Uhambo, like several studies before it, ended in disappointment.

    April 7, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    Science Speaks

  • Major Conference on HIV and COVID-19 Under Fire for Putting Science Behind Paywall

    In the shut-down world of COVID-19, medical science conferences take place virtually—and protests do, too. Such was the case this week during the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2021), which from March 6 to March 10 featured breaking, clinically important research on HIV and the novel coronavirus.

    March 11, 2021
    General
    The BodyPro

  • Will We Ever Have a HIV Vaccine?

    Crises have a habit of accelerating history, including the pace of technological advancement. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Vaccines were developed, safely but with unprecedented efficiency, less than a year after the WHO declared a global pandemic.

    February 23, 2021
    HIV Vaccine
    Vaccines Today

  • Can New Ethical Guidelines Reshape HIV Prevention Trials?

    In a bid to include ethical considerations in the HIV prevention trial process UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation recently launched a new guidance document for ethical consideration for HIV prevention trials. The guidance among other things, calls for the inclusion of communities that live in settings where trials are taking place as equal partners.

    February 12, 2021
    General
    Devex

  • Why Broadly Neutralising Antibodies Might Be the Next Big Thing in HIV

    Results of a “proof of concept” study presented at the virtual 4th HIV Research for Prevention Conference last week showed that one particular broadly neutralising monoclonal antibody (bNAb) – called VRC01 – prevented HIV infection in over 70 percent of people exposed to strains of HIV that is sensitive to this particular bNAb.

    February 8, 2021
    Antibody Related Research, Cure
    Spotlight

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