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

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

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Viruses is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.