The overall goal of the VAP is to support research leading to the development of new or improved vaccines, vaccine delivery systems and immunodiagnostic reagents for the prevention and detection of infectious diseases of importance to India and the United States. This announcement is an invitation for applications for research support. The research addresses the immunology, pathogenesis or epidemiology of infectious disease pathogens of importance to the US and India that will lead to the development of vaccines or immunodiagnostic reagents.
Current projects focus primarily on enteric, respiratory and vector-borne diseases.
The purpose of the program is to support researchers in the conduct of HIV interventional epidemiologic research studies that foster prevention of HIV infection or HIV-related disease in infants, children, and adolescents. The purpose of this program is to encourage new and innovative methods to further the prevention of HIV infection. This research has contributed to significant decreases in risk and has saved many lives. However, an estimated 40,000 persons per year acquire HIV in the United States, so currently available methods are not sufficient and additional prevention approaches are needed. This announcement seeks research proposals to identify interventions in the social environment that could further reduce HIV incidence.