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August 12, 2008
In This Issue:
News and Reports
1. New Report from Families USA—In Your Own Backyard: How NIH Funding Helps Your State’s Economy
2. NIH Official: HIV Vaccine Research "Swimming in the Dark"
3. New AIDS Vaccine Blueprint Calls for More Focus
4. Tijuana’s AIDS Epidemic Is a Binational Threat
5. Combined Malaria and NTD Control Effort Is Cost-Effective Solution to Reduce Anemia
6. Resistant TB Still Curable with Aggressive Treatment
Events
7. XVII International AIDS Conference
8. Vaccine Day
News and Reports
1. New Report from Families USA—In Your Own Backyard: How NIH Funding Helps Your State's Economy
This recent report from Families USA finds that the benefits of NIH-funded research go beyond their health impact, delivering thousands of high-paying jobs and billions of dollars worth of business activity to state economies nationwide.
To read the report, click here.
2. NIH Official: HIV Vaccine Research "Swimming in the Dark"
NIH Official: HIV Vaccine Research “Swimming in the Dark” (ScientificAmerica.com, July 28, 2008)
The prospects for an HIV vaccine may appear dim following news of the recent cancellation of another vaccine trial. The director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci, discusses the AIDS vaccine and the complexity that lies behind the search with ScientificAmerica.com, “The HIV vaccine is a very high priority for NIH, for NIAID, so whenever we get new resources—and hopefully that will be soon—there certainly would be a preferential targeting of those resources to vaccine discovery and development.”
To read the article, click here.
3. New AIDS Vaccine Blueprint Calls for More Focus
New AIDS Vaccine Blueprint Calls for More Focus (Washington Post, August 5, 2008)
“Developing an AIDS vaccine may take more time and innovation than we might have once imagined, but we are confident that science will prevail. The necessary direction for the field is clear,” said Dr. Seth Berkley, president and chief executive officer of International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
To read the article, click here.
4. Tijuana's AIDS Epidemic Is a Binational Threat
Tijuana’s AIDS Epidemic is a Binational Threat (Washington Post, August 1, 2008)
“Today, about one in 125 adults in the city is infected with the virus that causes AIDS. And with Mexico’s border cities serving as funnels for workers and goods traversing the two countries, Tijuana’s AIDS crisis poses a direct threat to the United States. ‘I call HIV the uninvited hitchhiker,’ said Steffanie Strathdee, a leading AIDS researcher at the University of California’s Division of International Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine.”
To read the article, click here.
5. Combined Malaria and NTD Control Effort Is Cost-Effective Solution to Reduce Anemia
Combined Malaria and NTD Control Effort Is Cost-Effective Solution to Reduce Anemia (PRWeb, August 7, 2008)
“Combining malaria and NTD control practices in a unified anemia framework affords one of the best opportunities to reduce the perfect storm of anemia morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa,” said Peter J. Hotez, President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.
To read the article, click here.
6. Resistant TB Still Curable with Aggressive Treatment
Resistant TB Still Curable with Aggressive Treatment (Wallstreetjournal.com, August 7, 2008)
Researchers find that there is still hope for the world’s deadliest form of tuberculosis.
To read the article, click here.
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7. XVII International AIDS Conference
Location: México City, México
For more information: www.aids2008.org
This conference was held from August 3-8, 2008. For conference highlights and webcasts, go here.
Possible Sessions of Interest, with R&D focus:
8. Vaccine Day
Date: September 19, 2008
Location: Johns Hopkins University
Time: 12:30-5:30 PM
Keynote Speaker: David Heymann, WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Security and the Environment, and Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication
For more information, click here.
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