The HIV Neutralizing Antibody Center
The HIV Neutralizing Antibody Center brings together research scientists from many research areas, including virology, chemistry, immunology, and biology.
These types of collaborations are necessary to begin to make rapid progress towards an AIDS cure and vaccine. These HIV research and AIDS research teams are essential for helping to recruit younger scientists who will be responsible for continuing the search for an AIDS cure.
The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA)
The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) is the largest health care provider of HIV/AIDS care in the United States. Almost twenty thousand patients are treated yearly. The VA Research Center funds many studies towards HIV prevention, AIDS research, and AIDS cure research. VA research facilities have access to some of the newest technology and scientist to work on HIV research and an AIDS cure.
The most anticipated advancement in HIV and AIDS research will be the development of a vaccine. Many people believe this will happen before an AIDS cure is discovered. However, with budget cuts likely in the biomedical research fields, it is anticipated that HIV research and AIDS research will lose funding as well.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is concerned that an HIV vaccine will cause people to abandon safe sex practices. They maintain that an HIV vaccine must not stop the progress already made in the prevention of HIV. The CDC HIV research and AIDS research programs focus primarily on conducting HIV research vaccine trials within the United States and in other countries. The Center for Disease Control played a critical role in the first two trials of a possible HIV vaccine. Even though the CDC determined these trials were not effective in producing the HIV vaccine, the HIV research information gained will be invaluable in future HIV research studies.
AIDS cure research is also continuing. In an attempt to find an AIDS cure, many clinical trials are always underway. Some AIDS patients are helping this cause and themselves, by volunteering to take the trial medications and report their results. Unfortunately, it may not been soon enough to help find an AIDS cure before many of these patients succumb to the disease. Headway has been made towards finding an AIDS cure, but it is still not within AIDS researchers grasp just yet. AIDS research continues to be one the most vigorous research programs in the scientific community.
Although progress is slow in HIV research and AIDS research, it is being made. As more technology becomes available, the closer we get to an AIDS cure. Support your local HIV research and AIDS research organizations. They just may be the ones who find the AIDS cure.