Word: hiv
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...vaccine researchers are finally dancing under the first raindrops of hope. It's not a downpour by any means or even a soaking shower, but it's something. At the end of a six-year vaccine field trial--the largest ever conducted--scientists have their first successful immunization against HIV...
...success, especially in science, is relative. Yes, as media reports immediately crowed, the vaccine was 31% effective at reducing the risk of HIV infection among the 16,000 healthy volunteers in the study. But that's nowhere near the 70%-to-80% rate that most public-health experts say is the minimum needed for an immunization to be judged worthwhile. Consider also that circumcision can cut the risk of HIV infection nearly twice as effectively...
...immune system by training cells to recognize and destroy the virus and one that boosts that response. Neither shot has proved effective alone, yet together they seemed to trigger a modest immunity--although no one yet knows why. Fifty-one people who received the vaccine became infected with HIV, compared with 74 who received a saltwater placebo, a barely significant difference. And while a lower risk of infection normally derives from a drop in the amount of virus circulating in the blood--with less virus floating around, there is less chance that HIV can bind to healthy cells--that...
...have a vaccine we would use to prevent HIV? No," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which picked up the bulk of the $105 million cost of the study. "But if it gives us enough information that would be helpful in the next steps toward development of a vaccine, then it's a successful trial...
...health care debates go on we’ve been talking about reforms, but the impacts on people with particular needs such as HIV have not been discussed,” added Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow Allison K. Hoffman...