Today, May 18, marks HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. It has now been 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were reported and more than 33 million people are living with the disease worldwide.
Capt. Singer was awarded the 2011 Major Joe Haydon Award for his exemplary professionalism, leadership and commitment to combating HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.
In a news conference held on May 5, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley announced that the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland received funding from a consortium to collaborate on a promising new HIV vaccine.
A collaborative program between MHRP’s site in Tanzania and WRAIR’s malaria program is building capacity and infrastructure within Tanzania to strengthen malaria diagnostic capabilities.
MHRP’s molecular epidemiologists played a key role on a research team that analyzed the HIV-1 genome sequences from infected volunteers in the Step HIV vaccine trial.