Since its inception in 1985, the U.S. Military HIV Research Program has worked to prepare and protect U.S. military forces so they are ready for the challenges and opportunities of deployment and peacekeeping operations in the future. With worldwide deployments of our U.S. troops on the rise, often in HIV endemic areas, the need for global protection of our troops against HIV is clear.
Research scientists from the Navy, Air Force, and Army work together under the direction of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the largest laboratory within the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the lead agent in Department of Defense (DoD) infectious disease research. Research is conducted in collaboration with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, a non-profit organization that supports and conducts military medical research.
