HIV vaccine
Posted By nikki on July 20, 2008
I was reading on the time.com website that a clinical trial for the government’s most advanced HIV vaccine candidate has been scrapped. The vaccine was to be a two-shot injection and was supposed to work by activating the body’s cell-based immune responses to HIV.
The trial has been scrapped largely because the previous trial of an HIV vaccine failed to prevent HIV, and in fact increased the incidence of HIV in the volunteers that participated in the trial.
The authorities that scrapped the trial have indicated that the new trial needs a little bit more research and information and needs to be scaled down to include fewer people.
I’m glad to know that people are working on a vaccine; I hope that they can come up with one soon. HIV and AID is a serious threat to global health.
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