HIV / AIDS affects over 33 million people worldwide, with the greatest number of victims located in developing countries. Conventional drugs only ease symptoms and do not cure the disease. A DNA vaccination that knocks down the CCR-5 gene could offer a solution to the disease.

Creator

• Ham, James
• Paz, Ricardo
• Scott-Solomon, Emily
• Belmontes, Ricardo

Contributors

• Rulfs, Jill
• Vassallo, Hellen

Subject

• Heal the World

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• GPS_2008_HEAL_DNA_Vaccines_and_HIV_AIDS

Year

• 2008

Date created

• 2008-01-01

Resource type

• Poster

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International