# Eradicating HIV and Hepatitis B.

The John W. Kluge Center sponsored a symposium, "Eradicating HIV and Hepatitis B," in partnership with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the Hepatitis B Foundation (HBF), with support from the Dana Foundation. The development of an HIV vaccine is one of the most important global public health priorities, according to experts. Nearly three million deaths from AIDS occurred in 2006 alone. Each day, nearly 12,000 individuals become infected with HIV, with 95 percent of the cases in the developing world. The development of a safe and effective AIDS vaccine is the world's best hope to end the pandemic. Although the number of people chronically infected with Hepatitis B worldwide (300 million) is not challenged, HBF has suggested that the number of people in the United States who are chronically infected has been significantly underestimated. There is a safe and effective vaccine to immunize people against Hepatitis B, but HBF suggests that vaccine-induced "escape mutants" are emerging to threaten current worldwide control strategy. The symposium was organized by Raymond Dwek, Oxford University professor and head of the glycobiology department. Dwek is the holder of the Chair of Technology and Society at the Kluge Center. In addition to Dwek, participants included Seth Berkley, IAVI; Timothy M. Block, HBF and Drexel College of Medicine; Baruch S. Blumberg, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Dennis Burton, Scripps Research Institute; Paul F. Coleman, Abbott Laboratories;…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2007
- By: John W. Kluge Center (library Of Congress)
- Genres: Science
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687825/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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