The long fight to end HIV/AIDS has seen real progress spurred by innovative research, prevention, treatment and education. But our nation’s ambitious goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030 is nevertheless in peril. Here are ways to step up the fight.
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An experimental HIV vaccine has been found to induce broadly neutralizing antibody precursors among a small group of volunteers in a Phase 1 study. The findings suggest that a two-dose regimen of the vaccine, given eight weeks apart, can elicit immune responses against the human immunodeficiency virus.
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As people around the world commemorate World AIDS Day, in many countries, the disease is still cutting lives short at an alarming rate. So what’s needed to address this global health issue?
Read MoreScientists at RTI International are deeply involved on a variety of fronts in the fight against HIV, and a team of women is at the forefront of a new $4.8 million effort to help fight unwanted pregnancies as well as prevent HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. “We are extremely passionate about this topic,” Ginger Rothrock, PhD, the project leader and director of technical development and commercialization at RTI. The new contract, which was disclosed on World AIDS Day last week, is to develop a dual-purpose drug delivery device for both HIV and pregnancy prevention that can be successfully used in the sub-Saharan...
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