Press releases

• First South African developed HIV vaccines begin testing in SA (20 July 2009)
  • Questions and answers - SAAVI 102/ HVTN 073 HIV Vaccine Clinical Trial (pdf format, 963 kb)
• South African developed HIV vaccines begin testing in the US and SA (28 November 2008)
• Fact sheet on the HVTN 073/ SAAVI 102 HIV vaccine trial (24 January 2008)
• Update on the STEP and Phambili HIV vaccine trials (23 October 2007)
• Vaccinations and Enrollment Are On Hold in Phambili (22 September 2007)
• HIV vaccine shows promise in early studies (31 August 2007)
• Preliminary results of therapeutic AIDS vaccine trial presented (31 August 2007)
• HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, May 18 2007 (18 May 2007)
• South Africans support Phambili (8 March 2007) http://www.phambili.org.za
• First large-scale study of HIV vaccine starts in South Africa (8 February 2007)
  • The Community and the Scientists: A synergistic relationship. A Backgrounder on Community Involvement prepared in conjunction with the press launch of Phambili
  • Risk and safety in clinical trials
• SAAVI announces new funding allocations for AIDS vaccine research and development in South Africa (30 May 2006)
• Nelson Mandela Foundation and SAAVI announce partnership (12 August 2004)
  • Speech by Dr Tim Tucker, Director of SAAVI, at the launch of the SAAVI/Nelson Mandela Foundation partnership (12 August 2004)
  • AIDS Vaccine Advocates Hail South African Focus on Youth (12 August 2004)
  • Vice president of the Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation, Mark Isaac, sent the following comment in support of the partnership (12 August 2004)
• World AIDS Vaccine Awareness Day (18 May 2004)
  • Background Information
  • Implats to fund HIV/AIDS vaccine development
  • Transnet comes on board to support HIV/AIDS vaccine development
• First HIV vaccine trial commences in South Africa (3 November 2003)
  • Questions and answers on vaccine trials
• South Africa approves IAVI sponsored AIDS vaccine candidate for human trials (25 August 2003)
• Medicines Control Council approves first HIV vaccine trial in South Africa (19 June 2003)
• 6^th World AIDS Vaccine Day - Progress in HIV Vaccine Research in South Africa (18 May 2003)
• Eskom awards an additional R75 million to find an HIV vaccine (6 February 2003)
• Three candidate HIV vaccine projects from SAAVI receive multi-million rand funding support and are ready for manufacture. (26 September 2002)
• Long-term insurance industry HIV testing protocol - changes to accommodate HIV vaccine trials. (26 September 2002)

Other press releases

• FIT Biotech’s Investigational HIV DNA Vaccine Candidate Advances To Phase II Trial In A Joint Collaboration with Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Pediatric Research Centre, Soweto, South Africa (30 March 2006)
• South Africa Begins First Phase II Preventive HIV Vaccine Trial (15 November 2005)
• South African researchers team up with Stanford University, USA,  to use Silicon Valley technology in the fight against HIV and TB in Africa. (12 April 2005)
• Not-for-Profit Approach Improves Prospect of Vaccines and Drugs for the Poor (16 September 2004)
• Executives take the lead in arivia.kom's HIV/AIDS programme, (29 June 2004)
• Germany begins its first AIDS vaccine trial, partnering with IAVI (16 February 2004)
• IAVI hails start of AIDS vaccine testing in South Africa (3 November 2003)
• HIVAN hosts MRC KZN AIDS Forum Mini-site (29 April 2003)