Volunteer for NIAID-funded clinical studies related to sexually
transmitted diseases on ClinicalTrials.gov. Join us! Volunteer
today for HIV research studies. Some common STDs are curable,
while others are incurable but treatable. All, however, are
preventable. That’s why a team of researchers spread across
multiple institutions and continents is working toward a clearer
understanding of the way HIV and other STDs are acquired and
spread. Their striking results have attracted the attention of
international health organizations and could potentially
influence public health policy. Since the late 1990s, a team of
researchers from the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation (LIR),
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the
Rakai Health Sciences Program in Uganda has sought better ways
to diagnose and prevent HIV, chlamydia, genital herpes,
syphilis, human papillomavirus (HPV), and gonorrhea. A large
portion of the team’s research has taken place in the Rakai
district of Uganda, where a study of a