A Community Update on HIV Vaccine Research

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Military HIV
Research Program (MHRP), in coordination with the Rockville Vaccine Assessment
Clinic (RVAC), is holding an informational event about HIV vaccine research on
Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at 1600 E. Gude Drive,
Rockville MD 20850.

The event will feature a guest speaker from MHRP who will discuss HIV vaccine
trials as well as a community stakeholder speaking about their experience.
MHRP hopes to engage the community in an informational discussion about this
important topic and to answer any questions the public might have about HIV
vaccine research.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP at the following link by
October 23, 2009. http://www.hivresearch.org/about/communityupdate.html

Refreshments will be provided.

The U.S. Military HIV Research Program
The U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) is at the forefront of the
battle against HIV to protect U.S. troops from infection and to reduce the
global impact of the disease.

MHRP is an international research program centered at the Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. Research is conducted in
conjunction with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command and the
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.

While its primary focus has been on developing a globally effective preventive
HIV-1 vaccine, MHRP is actively committed to and engaged in providing
effective prevention, care and treatment programs in the communities in which
they conduct research. At these sites -- which include Tanzania, Uganda,
Kenya, Nigeria and Thailand -- they also focus on strain surveillance, cohort
development and therapeutic studies.

MHRP conducts Phase I clinical trials on candidate HIV vaccines and blood
draw/blood component studies to support research at the Rockville Vaccine
Assessment Center (RVAC), located adjacent to its research laboratories in
Rockville, Maryland.

For more information, visit www.hivresearch.org.

SOURCE U.S. Military HIV Research Program

Jessica Ford of U.S. Military HIV Research Program, HJF, +1-301-251-5031,
jford@hivresearch.org