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Strengthening the response to HIV and AIDS: Helping make the MDGs a reality

Leading global health organizations recently joined together to form the Global Health Case Study Initiative. If you are involved in global health, you are encouraged to submit case studies highlighting best practices at casestudiesforglobalhealth.org.

New Online Video Forum Features Dr. Seth Berkley
New Online Video Forum Features Seth Berkley

Seth Berkley, president and CEO of IAVI, discusses the future of AIDS vaccine research in a series of video interviews featured on the BigThink.com—a first-of-its-kind site for idea sharing and discussion between global thought leaders.
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HIV/AIDS: The Search for a Vaccine
HIV/AIDS: The Search for a Vaccine

Originally aired as part of BBC World’s Kill or Cure? series, this four-minute documentary features AIDS specialists, researchers, and community workers discussing the impact of HIV/AIDS on their communities and their efforts to find a solution to the epidemic.
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Why the world needs an AIDS vaccine
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Despite the international community's best efforts, the HIV pandemic continues unabated. In 2006, more than 39 million people were living with HIV worldwide. Over four million people became newly infected with HIV and an estimated 2.8 million lost their lives to AIDS.
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What is a vaccine?
Vaccine

A vaccine is a substance that is introduced into the body to prevent infection or to control disease due to a certain pathogen (any disease-causing organism, such as a virus, bacterium or parasite); the vaccine 'teaches' the body how to defend itself against a pathogen by creating an immune response.
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South Africa Plays Role in AIDS Vaccine Discovery Efforts
IAVI awards South Africa’s Elevation Biotech with an innovation grant to help develop novel vaccine immunogens that elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV.
New AIDS Vaccine Research Center Established
IAVI and The Scripps Research Institute have launched the world’s first research center dedicated exclusively to solving the most pressing challenge facing AIDS vaccine researchers today—how to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV.
Strengthening the response to HIV and AIDS: Helping make the MDGs a reality
A new IAVI policy brief, endorsed by 43 partner organizations, examines the critical role that the response to HIV/AIDS plays in advancing the Millennium Development Goals.
Responding to AIDS: A Call for Japanese Support for Vaccine Development
An opinion piece published in Japan’s Asahi newspaper, authored by Sir Richard Feachem, calls upon Japan to contribute its world-class technology and financial resources to the research and development of preventive vaccines for infectious diseases—particularly an AIDS vaccine.
IAVI releases new policy briefs on approval and procurement of vaccines
These new publications help explain the important processes of ensuring that safe, effective, affordable vaccines are made available to developing countries.
IAVI and Indian Government Announce Results of Phase I AIDS Vaccine Trial
A phase I clinical trial of an MVA-based AIDS vaccine candidate was successfully completed in India, the results of which showed the vaccine candidate had acceptable levels of safety and was well tolerated.
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