Recent Press Releases

Investment in HIV prevention research and development ticked up modestly in 2018, following five years of steady declines in funding according to a new report released today at the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science. The modest increase in funding, while encouraging, is not enough to fully fund the needed research to develop new prevention options to help meet ambitious goals of curbing and eventually ending the HIV epidemic.

The Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcomes (ECHO) Study found no substantial difference in HIV risk among women using the three methods of contraception in the study – the copper-releasing intrauterine device (Cu-IUD), a levonorgestrel (LNG) implant (Jadelle) and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate-intramuscular (DMPA-IM), also known as Depo-Provera.

HIV prevention research funding continued to decline in 2017 for the fifth consecutive year, driven largely by a five-year low in US public sector funding, according to a report released today at the HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P 2018) conference in Madrid, Spain.

Just ahead of another World AIDS Day, two new efficacy trials officially launched in Africa today with the potential of additional HIV prevention methods in the future.