It is critical to continue and accelerate a robust research effort to develop an HIV
vaccine that is at least
moderately effective, while also aggressively scaling up the implementation of current treatment and prevention tools, Dr. Fauci concludes.
However, a safe and at least
moderately effective HIV
vaccine is needed to reach this goal more expeditiously and in a more sustainable way, according to a new commentary from Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and colleague Hilary D. Marston, M.D., M.P.H.