Safety of and Immune Response to an HIV-1 DNA Vaccine (VRC HIVDNA009-00-VP) in HIV Uninfected Adults

Inclusion Criteria

• Understanding of vaccination procedure
• Willing to receive HIV test results and provide informed consent
• Good general health
• HIV negative
• Hepatitis B surface antigen negative
• Anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody negative, or negative for HCV PCR if the anti-HCV is positive
• Not pregnant and agrees to use acceptable forms of contraception

Exclusion Criteria

• HIV vaccines or placebo in a prior HIV vaccine trial
• Immunosuppressive medications within 168 days prior to study
• Blood products within 120 days prior to study
• Immunoglobulin within 60 days prior to study
• Live attenuated vaccines within 30 days prior to study
• Investigational research agents within 30 days prior to study
• Medically indicated subunit or killed vaccines within 14 days prior to study
• Current anti-tuberculosis prophylaxis or therapy
• Anaphylaxis or other serious adverse reactions to vaccines; a person who had an adverse reaction to pertussis vaccine as a child is not excluded
• Autoimmune disease or immunodeficiency
• Active syphilis infection
• Unstable asthma (e.g., use of oral, orally inhaled, or intravenous corticosteroids, emergent care, urgent care, hospitalization or intubation during the past 2 years)
• Diabetes mellitus; a participant with past gestational diabetes is not excluded
• Thyroid disease, including removal of thyroid and diagnoses requiring medication
• Serious angioedema
• Hypertension
• Diagnosis of bleeding disorder
• Malignancy, except those with a surgical excision and subsequent observation period that in the investigator's estimate has a reasonable assurance of sustained cure and/or is unlikely to recur during the period of the study
• Seizure disorder requiring medication within the last 3 years
• Absence of the spleen
• Mental illness that would interfere with compliance with the protocol
• Pregnant or breastfeeding
• Two or more elevated liver function tests