Abstract
According to UNAIDS, globally 35.0 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2013. Sub-Saharan Africa remains most severely affected, accounting for 71% of the people living with HIV-1 worldwide. The number of people newly infected or who died from AIDS-related causes declined worldwide. Despite genuine, although unequal and fragile, successes in prevention programs attributed to strengthening and scaling up prevention strategies and antiretroviral treatment, the development of a preventive HIV-1 vaccine as part of a comprehensive prevention package remains among the best hopes for controlling the HIV-1 pandemic. By inducing appropriate immune responses directed against a specific pathogen, vaccines remain the most powerful public health tool to prevent infectious diseases.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of AIDS |
| Publisher | Springer New York |
| Pages | 1690-1698 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781493971015 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781493971008 |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |