Follow the Money: Money, Development & Research looks at the state of funding for AIDS vaccine research and development in the context of increased attention to global development issues and the changing landscape of access to treatment and existing prevention. We also provide an update on legislation in the US that will affect AIDS vaccine development.

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Intellectual Property At The Crossroads: Unique Challenges for AIDS Vaccines examines the ways in which intellectual property issues affect the ability of researchers to test the best vaccine concepts. We offer recommendations for overcoming some of the major barriers to cooperative AIDS vaccine research, including:

• Expansion of existing consortia and patent pools.
• Use of preclinical "covenants not to sue."
• Harmonization of intellectual property rules and regulatory issues across jurisdictions.
• Commitments to access or benefits for populations where vaccines are tested.
• New systems for sharing protected data.

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Don’t Shoot The Messenger: An Update On Tenofovir Research examines how controversies surrounding clinical trials of tenofovir have brought a number of festering issues in international clinical research to public attention. We reiterate the recommendations we made earlier in the year, including better coordination among disparate trials and multiple sponsors and more planning and preparation for making tenofovir globally accessible if it is widely licensed for use as PREP.

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Advocates’ Work Is Never Done looks back at the road we have traveled for the last decade and ahead to where the field, and we as advocates, may be headed. We lay out our vision of where the science is and ask other advocates to work with us to marshal the politics, human-to-human communication, good journalism and commitment needed to facilitate the increased advocacy and policy incentives that will help keep the field moving forward.

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The full version of AIDS Vaccines at the Crossroads is available online at www.avac.org, or to request a print copy, email avac@avac.org.

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