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IAVI Continues to Rank among Top 1% of Charities Nationwide NEW YORK, June 6, 2011—For the 10th consecutive year, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has been awarded a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent evaluator of charities. This rating indicates that IAVI consistently executes its mission in a fiscally responsible way, with…

NEW YORK, June 3, 2011—Three decades ago on June 5 the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention carried an account of five previously healthy young gay men in Los Angeles who had developed a rare kind of pneumonia that typically afflicted only the severely ill, malnourished and…

NEW YORK, May 18, 2011—In the three decades since AIDS was first identified in a brief article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus that causes this devastating disease has taken the world on a roller coaster ride. We have watched in dismay…

NEW YORK, May 12, 2011—The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) welcomes the news that a large, multinational clinical study led by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) has demonstrated that oral antiretroviral therapy (ART) administered earlier in the course of infection can reduce the sexual transmission of HIV among discordant couples, or couples in which…

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is pleased to announce the launch of its Fellowship Program in AIDS Vaccine Research and Development. This new program offers a unique opportunity for talented, young and early-career post-doctoral candidates to train alongside leading scientists in the AIDS vaccine field and contribute to one of the greatest global health challenges…

NEW YORK, April 18, 2011 – Sponsors of the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) clinical trial FEM-PrEP announced today that following a scheduled interim review of study data, the Independent Data Monitoring Committee advised that the trial will be highly unlikely to determine that the study drug regimen decreased risk of HIV infection among HIV-negative women at risk…

Forty AIDS and global health organizations from around the world, including the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), have endorsed a call for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Comprehensive Review on HIV/AIDS to make a firm commitment on research, development and delivery of new HIV-prevention options. The endorsing organizations proposed the following language be…

Seth Berkley Named as New GAVI Chief NEW YORK, March 8, 2011 – The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) congratulates its founder, President and Chief Executive Officer Seth Berkley on his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). The Board of GAVI, an organization that increases access to immunization…