HIV Vaccine Progress? What are the chances that a vaccine will be developed? What are the reasons that one has not already been found. What are viruses and how do vaccines for them work?
Warren said " The most promising vaccine trial to date occurred in Thailand, which involved over 16,000 participants. The results of the Thai prime-boost trial, RV144, weren’t good enough to go to market, but they did prove an HIV vaccine is possible."
It is now 30 years since AIDS first identified and fear of the disease spread worldwide along with the infection.
Dr Seth Berkley has now been working for more than half of that time to develop a vaccine against the virus.
Dr Berkley is the CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and when he spoke to me from New York, he said that in just the last year he has seen several leaps in the science that give him hope that an effective vaccine is within reach.
Mitchell Warren is head of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition [AVAC].
ReplyDeleteWarren said "
ReplyDeleteThe most promising vaccine trial to date occurred in Thailand, which involved over 16,000 participants. The results of the Thai prime-boost trial, RV144, weren’t good enough to go to market, but they did prove an HIV vaccine is possible."
It is now 30 years since AIDS first identified and fear of the disease spread worldwide along with the infection.
ReplyDeleteDr Seth Berkley has now been working for more than half of that time to develop a vaccine against the virus.
Dr Berkley is the CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and when he spoke to me from New York, he said that in just the last year he has seen several leaps in the science that give him hope that an effective vaccine is within reach.