EDGE on the Net

The medical community is abuzz with new developments around an HIV cure, from the newborn baby to the 14 patients cured of HIV, and new hope in bee venom.

The American Foundation for AIDS Research recently announced a new round of grants, looking at issues that include the Berlin patient and possible HIV vaccine trials.

An HIV vaccine to inoculate high-risk populations against the virus is three decades in the making, and progress continues to be slow. An upcoming trial of a Novartis product is planned for 2015, but even if successful, won’t be widely available til 2021.

Ask the Doc looks at vaccines for people living with HIV/AIDS, including the recent meningitis vaccines, for pneumococcal pneumonia, for HPV, or even just a yearly flu shot.

At Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a new paid HIV vaccine clinical trial is recruiting trans men, women and MSM as part of their wider mission to prevent HIV infection.