Resources

African Americans: Answers about HIV Vaccine Research (PDF - 86 KB) (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)
HIV/AIDS continues to disproportionately affect minority communities, including African Americans. This resource explains HIV vaccine research and its role in future prevention efforts.

Hispanics/Latinos: Answers about HIV Vaccine Research (PDF – 86 KB) (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)
HIV/AIDS continues to disproportionately affect minority communities, including African Americans. This resource explains HIV vaccine research and its role in future prevention efforts. En espanol (PDF – 88 KB)

Minorities and Biomedical Research (PDF - 207 KB) (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)
NIAID has long recognized that minority populations bear a disproportionate burden of sickness and disease in the United States. Differences in racial and ethnic backgrounds can affect susceptibility to infectious and immunologic diseases, including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), asthma, sexually transmitted infections, and kidney disease. This document outlines and discusses NIAID’s effort to pursue research of interest to minority communities.

NIH (FY 2008) Plan for HIV-Related Research (PDF - 564 KB) (National Institutes of Health)
The Plan for HIV-Related Research provides a roadmap for the NIH AIDS research effort, which is carried out by nearly all of the NIH Institutes and Centers. Chapter 5 of the document outlines how NIH’s HIV/AIDS research relates to specific populations including minorities and women.

Women and HIV/AIDS, Research and Clinical Trials (Office on Women's Health)
Researchers are conducting studies on all areas of HIV and AIDS and how the disease affects women. This resource provides information on research and clinical trials relating directly to women living with HIV across a range of topics, including vaccines to prevent HIV, promotion of the female condom to prevent HIV transmission, HIV/AIDS testing, new treatments for HIV/AIDS, disease progression in different people, mother-to-child transmission, complementary medicine, and HIV drugs and pregnancy.

Women's Health in the United States (PDF - 249 KB) (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)
NIADI conducts research, either through its own laboratories or through funded mechanisms, on a broad spectrum of these diseases. Virtually all of NIAID's clinical studies on the treatment and prevention of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome, and sexually transmitted infectious (STIs) involve women. This resource provides an overview of how these diseases affect women and activities the institute undertakes to combat them.