Science gets closer, but a fully effective vaccine remains elusive
Advances against AIDS
The International AIDS Conference is being held in the U.S. for the first time since 1990. What progress have we made in battling this global disease since then?
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July 20, 2012
After 10 years of research, experts are in a better position to judge the future. The consensus: a fully effective AIDS vaccine is a long way off. "There are people who will tell you we will never have a vaccine—I can't say those people are wrong," says Columbia's Hammer. But "you shouldn't be in this business if you don't have some degree of optimism based on the science. The world needs an AIDS vaccine. To give up now is selling the science short."
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Add CommentPerhaps the reason an HIV vaccine is so difficult to produce is because politics and economics have made science secondary. Is AIDS caused by HIV? There are many questions, but few answers. Dogma has replaced inquiry.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis article mentions trials and clinical trials many times but for only two studies does it mention on which creatures those trials were done. How many of these trials were done on human subjects and how many on animals?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHey, I was wondering if they have done any further testing with the machine that generates an Electromagnetic field which will filter the blood and remove the Virus. This works after injecting a certain drug, that attaches itself to the T-cells. I read about it in Popular Science.
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