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AVAC Report

For nearly 15 years, AVAC has published an annual review of biomedical prevention research. Over this period, the focus of the AVAC Report has expanded from AIDS vaccine research alone to the full spectrum of options, including pre-exposure prophylaxis, HSV-2 treatment, microbicides, and male circumcision. This comprehensive document reviews progress, makes recommendations, and analyses emerging issues. 


Visit our AVAC Report Archive to view the AVAC Reports from 1998-2008





2009 AVAC Report: Piecing Together the HIV Prevention Puzzle


When conceptualizing this year's Report, we took inspiration from a  quotation in the 2006-2008 review of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - funded Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (www.cavd.org), which states that the ultimate goal "is to develop a vaccine that prevents HIV infection or disease, anything less than that can be characterized as progress, but not success."


In the first section of the Report, "Puzzling Out Progress," we report on the AIDS vaccine field, where there's an energized focus on discovery, innovation, and basic science. In the second section, "Puzzling Out Success," we turn to the implications of PrEP and other strategies in efficacy trials today. Throughout, we argue that success will depend on combination approaches: on research plus implementation; on vaccines plus PrEP, should either show benefit; and on communities plus researchers working towards common goals.

Piecing Together the HIV Prevention Puzzle (full report)


Section 1: Puzzling Out Progress


Section 2: Puzzling Out Success


*Click here to download the tables, figures, and graphics found in the Report*


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