In 2019 the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research opened a protocol that is the first observational HIV study conducted in the Kingdom of Jordan. The WRAIR's Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch is leading the study, RV505, which seeks to understand the evolving HIV epidemic in Jordan. It is gathering information on HIV risk factors, outcomes, genotypes and drug resistance profiles.
The study takes place under the Partnership for Research in the Middle East (PRIME), a WRAIR collaborative initiative led by the Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch (EIDB) with the Jordanian Royal Medical Services, the Jordan Ministry of Health (MOH), University of Jordan (UJ) and Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST).