Strategies in the United States

About the author: The Committee on HIV Prevention Strategies in the United States reports on a project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is part of the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention of the Institute of Medicine.

The development of a universally effective AIDS vaccine is unlikely due to the high level of mutability and the different modes of transmission of HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS, and the different biological characteristics of populations affected by the virus. In addition to these obstacles, fundamental scientific and economic barriers to the development of an AIDS vaccine include a dearth of adequate animal models on which...