https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/01/24/la-jolla-lab-makes-new-discovery-in-search-for-hiv-vaccine/

Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV — the infection that can damage the immune system and lead to the deadly disease AIDS — hasn’t been in the news as much as it was during the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Still, an estimated 1.3 million new HIV infections were reported around the world in 2023, with 630,000 related deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

Anti-viral treatments for HIV have helped reduce the number of AIDS-associated deaths, and the new HIV infections in 2023 were down from 2.1 million in 2010. But there is no cure for HIV or AIDS or a vaccine for human use to prevent infection.