National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Conducts and supports basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.

To help turn the tide of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, NIAID has established research collaborations with international colleagues in more than 50 countries to develop comprehensive approaches to the HIV pandemic, encompassing vaccine development and other prevention activities, therapeutics and care of the HIV-infected person. These collaborations already have yielded important results, notably in developing methods to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV.