Viral Infection

HIV vaccine in collaboration with the NIH

This program is to develop a vaccine to prevent HIV infection.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HIV causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV is spread by sexual contact with an infected person, by sharing needles and/or syringes (primarily for drug injection) with someone who is infected, or, less commonly (and now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies), through transfusions of infected blood or blood clotting factors. Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth or through breast-feeding after birth.