International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

USAID provides support to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a non-governmental organization, to accelerate the development of an effective vaccine for HIV prevention.

This proposal builds upon IAVIs established infrastructure and track record in AIDS vaccine R&D, country programs, and public policy with the primary goal of ensuring the development and distribution of safe, effective, accessible preventive HIV vaccines for use throughout the world, with a particular focus on developing countries.

The purpose of the research is grounded in the stark reality of the economic and social devastation of the pandemic in Africa and Asia, a public health castastrophe.