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HTTP:: Two Shot Vaccine Against HIV Devised
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In the largest clinical trial aimed at observing the effects of a new, combo vaccine against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), results were only moderately successful. Two older vaccines were combined in the current studies, so that scientists could assess their efficiency when working together. But the effort was not a complete failure, scientists say. The new medication, they note, was effective in reducing the number of people who got infected with HIV by more than 30 percent, which was a huge step forward from previous results, Nature News reports. “I don't think anybody knows why this worked the way it did. It's the largest step forward that's ever occurred in the HIV-vaccine field, but there's a tremendous amount of more work that will need to be done,” immunologist Dan Barouch, who is an expert at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, says of the results. The new investigation was conducted on more than 16,000 Thailand reside!
nts, aged between 18 and 30. All of the participants were HIV-negative at the beginning of the US$119-million study. The investigation was sponsored by the US Army Surgeon General, and was conducted starting from 2003 by the Thai health ministry. The vaccines used were manufactured by Lyon, France-based Sanofi-Pasteur, and Brisbane, Aust...
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