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The HIV research unit at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is based at the clinical trials centre at St Mary’s Hospital.

Our key areas of research include:

• HIV vaccines
 Anti-HIV microbicide gels
 New drug treatments
 Treatment strategies, such as when to start and what to use first
 Primary HIV infection
 Discordant couples, where one partner has HIV and the other doesn't
You can read more in our research topics section.

Clinical trials
We generally have around 25 clinical trials running at any one time, involving patients from the Trust and healthy volunteers from the general public.
Find out more about taking part in research

For further information, use the links on the left.