Tag: HIV vaccine
Experimental AIDS Vaccine Prevents HIV
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle reports that for the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.
the World Health Organization and the U.N. agency UNAIDS said the [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: AIDS, AIDS vaccine, HIV vaccine, WHO
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NIH Explains Lack of HIV Vaccine
Although it is a “very reasonable query” to wonder why the scientific community has not developed an HIV/AIDS vaccine, research on developing such a vaccine has faced many scientific obstacles, Anthony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, writes in an MSNBC.com opinion piece. According to Fauci, scientists successfully have been [...]
Posted: April 3rd, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Anthony Fauci, HIV vaccine, HIV/AIDS, NIH
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