Despite the catastrophic history of HIV vaccines, boffins want to
recruit 32 healthy human guinea-pigs to test their latest effort on.
<http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/38BB556A-9296-422A-9E60-2DDD69591778.asp>:
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The St Stephen’s AIDS Trust of the Chelsea and Westminster hospital in
London has teamed up with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
(IAVI), to test IAVI's latest HIV vaccine candidate.
The Trust is looking for 32 healthy HIV-negative men and women at low
risk of HIV infection to participate in the trial.
At the same time another trial, using the same vaccine but a different
schedule of dosing and a vaccine modified to act against the most
common type of HIV there, will take place in India.
The vaccine aims to stimulate the CD8 cells that kill off HIV-infected
cells. This means that a successful vaccine would not completely
prevent HIV infection but would enable the immune system to contain
HIV, reducing viral replication and viral load and hopefully delaying
or preventing the development of AIDS.
This is the same mode of action as the candidate in the ill-fated STEP
Trial, which was ended last year when it was found that the vaccine
was at best ineffective and at worst may have made people more
vulnerable to HIV infection.
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