Celebrating Africa Day: HIV Vaccine Development - A four-point agenda Each year on May 18, advocates all over the world commemorate the day to mark progress in the search for an AIDS vaccine. Also, the Africa Day is the annual commemoration of...
Objectives of the meeting/engagement To update media owners and managers on ongoing HIV vaccine research with the aim of increasing their knowledge and interest in the subject. To mobilize media bosses and interest them in the HIV vaccine story so that they...
VARG member Chamunorwa Mashoko partnered with the award-winning radio station, Capitalk 100.4FM. Capitalk 100.4 FM is Zimbabwe’s first and only Harare based commercial talk radio station. The valuable resource for advocates entitled "HIV Vaccines - an introductory factsheet" created by the VARG’s founding...
In addition to a statement in a national newspaper commemorating International HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, issued by the VARG in partnership with AfNHi and AVAC, VARG Member Maureen Luba and fellow advocate Ulanda Mtamba spoke to Malawi’s national broadcaster , MBC, about...
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD) on 18 May each year commemorates U.S. President Bill Clinton’s 1997 declaration that, “only a truly effective, preventive HIV vaccine can limit and eventually eliminate the threat of AIDS”. In 2014 alone, AIDS killed more than 1.2 million...
The full report of all VARG activities for #HVAD2018 can be read and downloaded here! Blogs have proven to be a great way of getting out important information to a critical mass of readers without navigating a cumbersome media or editorial process. This...
On HVAD2018 the VARG's Matthew Rose, took part in the May episode of AVAC’s Px Pulse podcast along with VARG Emissaries Kundai Chinyeze and Bill Snow who is also the founder of AVAC and friend of the VARG, HVTN’s Larry Corey....
The half-day event commemorated not only HVAD but also the 25th anniversary of AFRIMS. About 120 people attended the meeting. They were CAB members from 5 CABs, research teams from 6 institutes and officers from MoPH and HIV vaccine development sub-committee. The...
The report, a tribute the men of the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male”, highlights the deliberations and interactions that took place during the VARG / South African Medical Research Council Imbizo as a prelude to the...
Mail and guardian, Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism South Africa: HIV Vaccine Trial - Why Not Everyone Is Getting the HIV Prevention Pill. Only some study participants have access to the tablet that can cut the risk of HIV infection by more...