To commemorate National HIV Vaccine Awareness Day on Sunday, May 18, AIDS groups and experts issued press releases and launched initiatives aimed at sparking a resurgence of interest and commitment to finding a safe and effective vaccine for HIV.
“Basic HIV vaccine research must remain one of the many prevention strategies being pursued at a national [...]
Rallying Behind HIV Vaccine Research
Defending HIV Vaccine Research
In a recent Baltimore Sun editorial, Dr. Homayoon Khanlou and Michael Weinstein, both of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, argued that less funding should be dedicated to HIV vaccine research so that more could go to HIV prevention and treatment. In response, the Sun (baltimoresun.com, 4/5) has published letters to the editor supporting vaccine research.
The first, [...]
Rethinking Is Urged on a Vaccine for AIDS
Researchers must go back to the drawing board before they can develop an effective vaccine against H.I.V., AIDS experts said at a scientific meeting on Tuesday.
And Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the top federal official responsible for AIDS research, agreed that more fundamental knowledge is needed about H.I.V. and the way the body and experimental vaccines [...]
Merck AIDS Vaccine Failure May Doom Promising Study
A once-promising study of an AIDS vaccine developed by the U.S. will be scaled back and may be scrubbed after the failure of a related Merck & Co. effort.
The vaccine, created by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, may be studied in about only 2,000 people in the U.S. [...]
Study: HIV Vaccine Volunteers Need More Support From Researchers
When it comes to developing a safe, effective vaccine to stem the global AIDS pandemic, researchers agree there is one component they can’t do without - volunteers willing to become human guinea pigs for testing the experimental serums.
Tens of thousands of participants will be needed for clinical trials of vaccines aimed at preventing HIV infection, [...]