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above: Eric Sandström with the chief nurse, Mary Ngatoluwa, the medical officer, Suleiman Choum, and a visitor (to the left). The medical personnel are taking part in the HIV vaccine trials.

Aurora photographer Åke Ericson’s latest work can viewed on The Digital Journalist in an online feature story depicting Swedish professor Eric Sandström’s medical research facility in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where his new HIV vaccine is being tested. Åke spent three years trying to persuade professor Sandström to allow him to photograph at the research facility, along with a medical reporter. To read the entire story on The Digital Journalist, click here.

To view more work by Åke Ericson, visit Aurora Photos.

Technicians Zacharia Mtulo and Emmanuel Salala are pleased with how the immune cells have been reacting with the “Hivis” HIV vaccine.

This patient was concerned about fever and boils. A previous test indicated he was HIV-positive, but the test is performed again to make sure.

Dafroza Kibirit, in the foreground, and Ben Friday, left, are two of a total of 60 police officers participating as volunteers in the Swedish-Tanzanian HIV vaccine study.