Will discuss progress made in the work to combat hiv. One of the speakers is dr. Anthony felty, the head of the allergy and Infectious Diseases department. It should get underway shortly here on cspan. Once again, we are waiting for the start of a program of Health Officials working to combat hiv. We would hear from dr. Anthony fauci, the head of the national of allergies and Infectious Diseases. In the meantime, the city press in africa is reporting that preparatory work is well underway to license an hiv vaccine in south africa. If all goes well, the followup trials are set to begin january, 2017, and could be used for general use by 2019. This was revealed by glenda gray at the hiv research for Prevention Conference that is taking place in cape town. Waiting for the start of this gathering of Health Officials, a discussion on progress made in creating a vaccine to combat hiv. All of the panelist, we understand, are in the room to ,y clipping dr. Anthony fauci head of the National In
Two different things. When you are looking at hearings, you will see more hearings in the senate that look like what you have been seeing in the house over the last several years. Administration officials being called from various departments and agencies to essentially get byed over the coals republican senators who are going to be chairman of these committees for the first time. You are going to see more critical hearings and hearings that are built around topics that are critical of the administration. In terms of legislation, you are probably going to see more markups and more consideration of bills at the Committee Level and when they come out of the last couple in the of years, bills of come out of committee and then sort of disappeared in a number of cases. What mcconnell is at least saying and what he said last coat newsnew conference that if a bill comes out on a bipartisan basis, somebody might actually see it on the floor. You also mentioned an open amendment process. How li
Hear from here where iavi is and where her partners and prospective from leading pdp in this area. Format well have 30 minutes for dr. Fauci to give us sort after presentation, plenary talk and well move to Mitchell Warren of avac of eight other ten minutes of comments. Margie mcglynn as well eight or ten minutes of comments. Then well open up the pan fell for you to give questions and i will moderate that. A good chance for to you engage with them on discussions where we are with hiv Vaccine Research and where it is coming. So, dr. Faw economy, over fauci, over to you, and thank you for coming. [applause] so i can advance my own slides . There you go. Thank you very much, todd, a real pleasure to be with you here today. Im going to talk a bit about the issue of the role of an hiv vaccine. I want to start off by putting into perspective the concept why we really do need an hiv vaccine despite the spectacular successes and really historic successes well had over the last several years i
Million people, the virus was spreading. At first it seemed like a local problem. A newly identified deadly virus from china. The 45 cases have been reported in china, including two deaths. The chinese city of wuhan locked down. More than 600 infected. And its spreading fast. Fear it could spread further. It was over there, in china, where frankly theyve had a lot of outbreaks over the years. China has reported 136 cases of the bird flu. Emergence of the h10 and 8 strain follows that of the fatal h7 and 9 strain last year. The authorities are closing poultry markets in guangdong. Chinas desperate bid to control the latest bird flu virus. But this was no bird flu and the world soon began to take notice. St. Marys hospital in london has a long and storied history fighting disease. Penicillin was discovered here in 1928. It revolutionized medicine. Today, researchers here from Imperial College are working for another radical breakthrough. I think we will see technology that completely cha
More than 600 infected. And its spreading fast. Fear it could spread further. It was over there, in china, where frankly theyve had a lot of outbreaks over the years. China has reported 136 cases of the bird flu. Emergence of the h10 and 8 strain follows that of the fatal h7 and 9 strain last year. The authorities are closing poultry markets in guangdong. Chinas desperate bid to control the latest bird flu virus. But this was no bird flu and the world soon began to take notice. St. Marys hospital in london has a long and storied history fighting disease. Penicillin was discovered here in 1928. It revolutionized medicine. Today, researchers here from Imperial College are working for another radical breakthrough. I think we will see technology that completely changes the way vaccines are being made, and covid19 is allowing us to try this technology. Back in january, professor Robin Shattock was watching the news coming out of china with growing concern. At that stage it wasnt a pandemic.