it’s clear that global goals for HIV prevention will miss the mark by a long shot. Though important progress has been made, 

the crisis UNAIDS called out in 2016 persists today with new infections around 1.7 million annually, a far cry from the 2020 target of fewer than 500,000. So, we asked ourselves, Now What?, and answered with cross-cutting analysis and an advocacy agenda to match.

An epidemic can be controlled with treatment and other prevention—just as HIV is coming under control today. But a sustained end has almost always depended on a vaccine. This year on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, our core message is simple: No end without a vaccine; no vaccine without funding.

Existing options for prevention and treatment must be scaled up to bring down rates of new infections, but a vaccine is an essential component of a long-term end to the HIV epidemic