Special Issue "The Fight between Human Beings and HIV: 40th Anniversary and Beyond"

A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Virology and Viral Diseases".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Erik De Clercq
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Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Interests: HIV/AIDS; Antiretroviral therapy
Prof. Dr. Caijun Sun
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Guest Editor
School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 514400, Guangdong, China
Interests: SARS-CoV-2; HIV-1; influenza; HSV-1; vaccine; HIV cure; viral vector; innate immunity; T cell immunity; mucosal immunity
Prof. Dr. Guangdi Li
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Guest Editor
Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China
Interests: genome-wide diversity; coevolution and interaction of HIV, HBV and HCV; the development of antiviral drugs and vaccines
Prof. Dr. Bin Su
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Guest Editor
Beijing Key Laboratory for HIV/AIDS Research, Beijing 100069, China
Interests: HIV/AIDS; immune reconstitution/restoration; antiretroviral therapy; neutralizing antibody; antibody functions; humoral immune response; acute HIV infection

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Since its discovery in 1981, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has been persistently rampant as one of the mostly severe challenges for global public health. Although there are no cures or preventive vaccines, after the unremitting efforts of numerous scientists and physicians during the last 40 years, AIDS has been turned from a fast-fatal disease to a manageable chronic one. To celebrate the upcoming arrival of World AIDS Day (1 December) in this special year (40th anniversary for the first clinical AIDS case report), we initiated this Special Issue: “The Fight between Human Beings and HIV: 40th Anniversary and Beyond”.

In this Special Issue, we welcome novel findings related to prevention and control of HIV infection, included but not limited to pathogenesis, new drug discoveries, functional cure strategies, vaccine researches, drug resistance, animal infection models, clinical trials, etc.

Prof. Dr. Erik De Clercq
Prof. Dr. Caijun Sun
Prof. Dr. Guangdi Li
Prof. Dr. Bin Su
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Pathogenesis
  • Drug discovery
  • Functional cure
  • HIV vaccine
  • Animal infection model
  • Clinical trials

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1984—Discovery of the First Anti-HIV Drug, Suramin
Viruses 2021, 13(8), 1646; https://doi.org/10.3390/v13081646 - 19 Aug 2021
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In 2021, we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the identification of the disease AIDS, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a name that for the first time in history was launched in 1981 [...] Full article
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