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Nicole Frahm HIV/AIDS HIV Vaccine HIV Prevention Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery Data Visualization
April 20, 2016 | Health News

Co.Design: How Designers are Helping HIV Researchers Find a Vaccine

Rethinking how scientists share data -- especially the inconclusive results -- may be the key.

By Mark Wilson

The Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) consists of a group of labs across the world, all pooling their data with one goal in mind: to create an AIDS vaccine as fast as possible. But the theory of sharing vast amounts of data is easier than the practice.

Jared Baeten
Microbicides HIV/AIDS HIV Prevention Jared Baeten
March 31, 2016 | Department News

UW Daily: Turning the tide on HIV

By Chelsea Gish

The ASPIRE trial and The Ring Study, two large scale clinical trials, have found that microbicides can safely reduce the risk of new HIV infections in women.

A microbicide is any compound capable of destroying microbes and infectious agents. Recently, this method of prevention has become particularly relevant in reducing the transmission of HIV when applied to the vaginal or rectal region as a topical gel.

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HIV/AIDS Jared Baeten Microbicides HIV Prevention CROI Women's Health
February 22, 2016 | Health News

NewsBeat: Microbicide Reduces Women's HIV Risk in Large-Scale Trial

By Lisa Rossi

Two large clinical trials have found that a microbicide prevention method can safely help reduce new HIV infections in women.

Results of the ASPIRE trial, which enrolled more than 2,600 women in Africa, were announced today at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston. The results also will be published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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