HIV Page
The page which leads to all the HIV items in the substack grouped.
From this page you can go to more specialized pages on HIV.
HIV TRIAL NETWORK FOR HIV VACCINES – HVTN NUMBERS
Before going onto the more specialized pages on HIV vaccines, cures, and my writing you will need to understand HVTN numbers.
They do also support for other HIV related medicine. I discovered them when I was trying to understand what these series of numbers HVNT-XXX, (XXX is what number it might be.) I think that each study or activity is assigned these numbers. I am trying to find a confirm. I want to avoid double reporting on HIV vaccines and HIV Cures.
These numbers are useful so you know whether you are reading about the same or different clinical trial. For example the Moderna vaccine has HVTN 302 assigned to its clinical trials. I saw a press release which wasn’t clear that it was part of the Moderna vaccine effort, but since it mentioned HVTN 302, I realized it wasn’t a new effort.
In this press release Moderna isn’t mentioned at all, but the number HVTN 302 told me that it was the same study. For some reason they aren’t mentioning Moderna.
A different HVTN number doesn’t mean it is entirely unrelated either. It might be part of a series of studies in a progression, or a clinical trial for one thing which supports is preliminary, like safety testing, for a subsequent study.
For example, this has an HVTN 300 number, but is clearly part of the HVTN 302 effort.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04915768
Also, the numbers don’t follow a sequence in time. In the following paper HVTN 305 was done in 2012-2017 and HVTN 306 was done 2013-2020. It is a long history of failures to make an effective or even partially effective vaccine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7655734/
This page tracks the news on the HIV Vaccine developments, particularly those which involve mRNA.
There is good progress figuring out how HIV persists even when it is undetectable. I think a cure might come after the vaccine, but that is a guess on my part.
Various articles are in this page on HIV.