2004 Annual Progress Report
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IAVI’S WORLDWIDE PARTNERS AND PROGRAMS Countries where IAVI has Governments that are Countries in which IAVI has scientific collaborators financial donors to IAVI advocacy or policy programs Belgium Rwanda Canada Belgium Netherlands Canada South Africa Denmark Brazil Norway China Sweden European Union Canada Rwanda Finland Switzerland Ireland Denmark South Africa France Uganda Netherlands Finland Spain Germany UK Norway France Sweden India US Sweden Germany Switzerland Kenya Zambia UK India Uganda Netherlands US Ireland UK Japan US Kenya Front Cover: (Left) Lab technician Moses Kwizera working on samples from a feasibility site at the MRC/IAVI laboratory in Masaka (Photo IAVI). (Middle) IAVI President and CEO Dr. Seth Berkley meets with Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on 7 December, 2004. (Photo India Prime Minister’s office). (Right) Part-Time Study Physician Dr. Immaculee Mukatete (left) and Study Nurse Kephas Kafwimbi (right) joined other participants at a GCP (Good Clinical Practices) training workshop hosted by IAVI in Entebbe, Uganda in November (Photo Vanessa Vick/IAVI). Back Cover: (Left) HIV rapid testing at an IAVI vaccine research site in Kigali, Rwanda (Photo IAVI). (Middle) An HIV voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) session at the CGMRC center in Kilifi, Kenya (Photo IAVI). (Right) Fred Oyugi, Quality Control Manager for the Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative at an IAVI-sponsored GCP training workshop in Entebbe (Photo Vanessa Vick/IAVI). IAVI 2004 Annual Progress Report TABLE OF CONTENTS President’s Note Executive Summary of 2004 Activities and Key Milestones............................................................... i Detailed 2004 Annual Progress Report...................................................................................... 1 Introduction................................................................................................................ 1 IAVI 2005-2007 Strategic Plan...................................................................................... 1 AIDS Vaccine Research & Development ............................................................................... 3 Dr. Emilio Emini Joins IAVI ......................................................................................... 3 Scientific Blueprint 2004 ........................................................................................... 3 Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise ..................................................................................... 4 Update on IAVI-Sponsored AIDS Vaccine Candidates in Clinical Development ............................. 4 Overview of IAVI-Sponsored Clinical Trials ...................................................................... 9 IAVI-Sponsored AIDS Vaccine Candidates in Preclinical Development......................................10 Core Immunology Laboratory for Comparison of AIDS Vaccine Candidates.....................................12 Applied Research to Address AIDS Vaccine Challenges.............................................................16 IAVI Vaccine Research & Design Laboratory ....................................................................16 Neutralizing Antibody Consortium ...............................................................................17 AIDS Vaccine Consortium ..........................................................................................18 Non-Human Primate Vaccine Studies ............................................................................19 Adjuvant Screening Program ......................................................................................20 IAVI Agreement With Maxygen....................................................................................20 Global AIDS Vaccine Surveillance Efforts .......................................................................20 Annual Meeting of IAVI's Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) ...................................................21 Preparations and Support for AIDS Vaccine Research ..............................................................21 Building Local Capacity: Support for Clinical Trial Sites and Preparatory Studies .......................21 Preparatory Studies for Possible Future Efficacy Trials in Africa ...........................................24 Building Country-level Commitment and Capacity ............................................................30 Mobilizing International Support and Assuring Future Vaccine Access ..........................................37 Policy Advocacy .....................................................................................................37 Policy Research & Development..................................................................................39 Other International Collaborations ..............................................................................40 IAVI Report Publications ................................................................................................48 Communications Activities .............................................................................................50 Resource Development..................................................................................................52 Governance, Operations and Finance.................................................................................54 Strategic Planning Process FY2005-2007 ........................................................................54 Board of Directors ..................................................................................................54 Operations and Finance............................................................................................55 International Scientific Meetings ...........................................................................................56 Board of Directors.............................................................................................................59 Scientific Advisory Committee ..............................................................................................60 Policy Advisory Committee ..................................................................................................61 Glossary of Vaccine-Related Terms ........................................................................................62 IAVI’s mission is to ensure the development of safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccines for use throughout the world. PRESIDENT’S NOTE I am pleased to present IAVI’s 2004 Annual Progress Report, which details the work that our international team and partners accomplished this past year toward the goal of a safe, effective and accessible preventive AIDS vaccine. The Report also highlights how we intend to build upon this work in the coming years, given the new realities that we face as an organization and in the field. Throughout 2004, IAVI devoted significant resources to long-term strategic planning. We began with management and staff across departments taking a critical look at the state of global vaccine efforts, including where there has been meaningful progress, and the many places where efforts have lagged and must be redoubled or refined. This formed the basis for developing detailed programmatic objectives for the next three years, 2005 to 2007, and the indicators by which we will measure our achievements. Two key themes emerged early on and guided strategic planning through its conclusion. First, we believe that the core principles on which IAVI was founded nine years ago remain relevant today—these include the need for an integrated approach to research and development, advocacy and policy, and the need for partnership between the public and private sectors of industrialized and developing countries. Second, we recognize that a vaccine is revealing itself to be even more scientifically challenging than initially thought, and this necessitates some course correction. As you know, in our early years we operated from the premise that a safe and effective AIDS vaccine is scientifically feasible, and could be achieved if the world would commit to advancing the many concepts and candidates that were then considered promising but had languished for want of attention and resources. Today, we remain confident that a vaccine is feasible—in fact, the field has amassed more evidence that this is the case—although we expect that realizing this possibility will mean mounting new efforts, on a scale much larger than anticipated. IAVI’s pledge is to do more of what we have been doing, and do it even better. We are continuing our work to construct candidates and test them in trials given what is known today, while in parallel expanding our work to discover and pursue entirely new directions. We are increasing the rigor by which we put ideas to the test of the scientific method and make decisions on priorities accordingly. We are committed to finding smarter ways of catalyzing creativity and new collaborative arrangements to pool expertise and resources; in this regard we are working closely with the new Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise. Our new strategic plan calls for shaping and equipping the organization for the long haul. By far the most common question IAVI gets asked is when will a vaccine be available—the truth is that we simply do not know, because good science cannot be corralled into time estimates. What we do know is that we need a global movement that marshals attention and sustains commitment and resources for whatever timeline is required. At the