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HIV/AIDS

NIAID's HIV/AIDS Research Program

Although progress has been made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, the epidemic continues to devastate the United States and the international community with an average of 50,000 new HIV infections each year in the United States and an estimated 34 million people living with HIV worldwide. As the leading U.S. government institute for HIV/AIDS research, NIAID is committed to conducting the research necessary to successfully end the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Through laboratories and clinics on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, and a vast network of supported research at universities, medical centers and clinical trial sites around the globe, NIAID is working to better understand HIV and how it causes disease, find new tools to prevent HIV infection including a preventive vaccine, develop new and more effective treatments for people infected with HIV, and hopefully, find a cure.

Learn more about NIAID's role in HIV/AIDS research.

Research

Highlights

photo of Bob Hoff during a PBS interview
  • Elite Controllers

  • Watch the video of Bob Hoff, HIV positive for more than 25 years, who has no viral load and has never taken medication.
  • A Vaccine for HIV

  • Learn why Dr. Anthony Fauci is optimistic that we will develop a preventive HIV vaccine.
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day: May 18th
 

News and Events

Media Availability: In Heterosexuals, Transmitted HIV Strains Often Resemble Original Infecting Virus—Sept. 20, 2012

Media Availability: NIH-Funded Analysis Estimates Effective PrEP Dosing—Sept. 13, 2012

NIH Awards $7.8 Million for Innovative HIV Vaccine Approaches—Aug. 21, 2012

Media Availability: Landmark HIV Treatment-as-Prevention Study Demonstrates Additional Health Benefits, Cost-Effectiveness—July 27, 2012

News From NIAID-Supported Institutions


HIV/AIDS Awareness Days
Awareness Days educate, motivate, and mobilize local communities in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Be the generation to find a vaccine to prevent to prevent HIV
Be The Generation, get involved in important HIV vaccine research.

Join AIDS.gov in Facing AIDS for World Aids Day. December 1, 2011

Last Updated July 27, 2012

Last Reviewed June 03, 2011