HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD), also known as World AIDS Vaccine Day is observed annually on May 18th as a day to educate communities across the world about the importance of HIV vaccine research.
Below, we have pulled together relevant articles on HIV vaccination from across our BMC portfolio of journals. At BMC, all of our articles are open access - unrestricted and free to read and distribute.
As an established multidisciplinary journal, AIDS Research and Therapy advances the prevention, treatment and global understanding of HIV/AIDS. Open access publishing provides a truly universal platform for scientists, clinicians, health workers and patients to stay abreast of the latest treatments, preventions and the search for the cure. Read more
Leveraging early HIV diagnosis and treatment in Thailand to conduct HIV cure research
Contemporary issues and new challenges in chronic kidney disease amongst people living with HIV
Metformin effect on gut microbiota: insights for HIV-related inflammation
HIV-1 subtype C predicted co-receptor tropism in Africa: an individual sequence level meta-analysis
Retrovirology is a community-rooted journal encompassing all disciplines of human and animal retrovirus research. The journal welcomes manuscripts on all aspects of clinical and basic science research relating to retroviral elements, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV), as well as endogenous retroviruses and their emerging role in cancer and autoimmune diseases. Read more
Bovine leukemia virus: lessons on vaccine development
Benefits and limitations of humanized mice in HIV persistence studies
Characterization of resistance to a potent D-peptide HIV entry inhibitor
BMC Public Health considers articles on the epidemiology of disease and the understanding of all aspects of public health. The journal has a special focus on the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community. Read more
BMC Infectious Diseases publishes research on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases in humans, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology. Read more
With a dynamic and robust focus on the infectious diseases that disproportionately affect poor populations, Infectious Diseases of Poverty is an open access journal with a trans-disciplinary approach spanning research, implementation and policy. Served by a well-established and global Editorial Board, the journal attracts a large readership from around the world, provides a platform for discussion and evidence building, and offers abstracts translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. Read more
This series, published in Retrovirology, presents a collection of articles describing the state of the art in small animal models for HIV research. It is intended to highlight the progress made and how these models have been utilized to address issues of fundamental importance in HIV research, shedding light on limitations of the current models and expectations from the next generation of precision small animal models for HIV research. Read the articles.
Discussion of HIV treatment outcomes in LMICs has historically been neglected, even though it is in these countries that a cure is most crucial. This series, published in AIDS Research and Therapy, covers the ways treatment outcomes can be improved along the way to a HIV cure in states defined as LMICs by the WHO. Read the articles.