AIDS Vaccine Within Reach

Posted July 16, 2012 by Johnny2x in Science

Better late then never? At a press conference in 1984 Secretary Margaret Heckler of the U.S. Health and Human Services predicted an effective AIDS vaccine would be available within just two years.

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full story at Reuters.com

Thanks to drugs that can control the virus for decades, AIDS is no longer a death sentence. New infections have fallen by 21 percent since the peak of the pandemic in 1997 and advances in prevention – through voluntary circumcision programs, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and early treatment – promise to cut that rate even more.

Still, as many as 34 million people are infected with HIV worldwide. And with 2.7 million new infections in 2010 alone, experts say a vaccine is still the best hope for eradicating AIDS.

Teams have been working on a vaccine for nearly three decades, but it wasn’t until RV144, the 2009 clinical trial involving more than 16,000 adults in Thailand, that researchers achieved any hint of success.

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