A research team led by the Duke and MHRP won the “Best Academic Research Team” award at the 6th Vaccine Industry Excellence Awards ceremony at the World Vaccine Congress.
The annual cost of providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-infected patients in Kenya averaged $224, or less than $20 per month. A paper in the Journal of the International AIDS Society provides the first published estimate of the cost of ART treatm
Researchers believe new findings will provide a new pre-clinical model to understand the early events in mucosal HIV infection and help to evaluate candidate HIV vaccines.
MHRP initiated a large, long-term cohort study at multiple African sites that will evaluate HIV prevention care and treatment services it supports through local facilities.