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HIV Lifecycle and Cell-Entry Animations

From here you can view short animations featuring the HIV life cycle and cell entry. The animations require Windows Media Player to be installed on your computer. Click here to download the latest version of Windows Media Player.

hiv life cycle animationThis animation is streamed over the Internet and, as such, quality is dependent on specification of your computer, speed of your connection to the Internet and also the amount of general Internet traffic. In case of problems in viewing this animation you may want to try again at another time.

Alternatively you can download the individual compressed animations by clicking on the appropriate button below. These compressed files should take less than 5 minutes each to download (based on 56K modem connection, depending on traffic). Click on the button and follow the on-screen instructions.


View the HIV Lifecycle Animation as Streaming Video or Download Compressed File (2.9MB) to disk.
View the Fusion and Cell-Entry Animation as Streaming Video or Download Compressed File (4.7MB) to disk.
View the Attachment Inhibition Animation as Streaming Video or Download Compressed File (476KB) to disk.
View the Co-Receptor Inhibition Animation as Streaming Video or Download Compressed File (532KB) to disk.
View the Fusion Inhibition Animation as Streaming Video or Download Compressed File (1.1MB) to disk.

HIV animation and content generously provided by Roche.