HIV vaccine development plan formulated by Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise
A strategic plan has been formulated for developing an effective HIV vaccine by the Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise, whose membership includes the European Commission plus 140 agencies and research units from 17 European and developing countries.
The plan highlights the main roadblocks to developing a vaccine and suggests how to tackle them. Released in the Public Library of Science's journal Medicine, its initial goal is developing new HIV candidate vaccines based on recently transmitted viruses, which would offer the best hope of fighting current strains.
The next step would be increasing product development and manufacturing capacity, given that capacity could be exhausted by an increased number of candidate vaccines.