South Africa hosts historic NIH-supported clinical trial The first HIV vaccine efficacy study to launch anywhere in seven years is now testing whether an experimental vaccine regimen safely prevents HIV infection among South African adults. The study, called HVTN 702, involves a new version of the ...

Getting ready for World AIDS Day, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published the HIV testing guidance evaluation technical report, now released on ECDC website ahead of December 1st: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/HIV-testing-guidance-evaluation.pdf This document was developed with considerable input from members of the PLHIV ...

Dorthe Raben has been working in the HIV/AIDS field for many years. Her work with HIV in Europe and OptTEST encompasses the scientific and policy aspects of testing, linkage to care and prevention in HIV/AIDS. In this interview she speaks about results and challenges. Original Article