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...volunteers is a case in point. The experimental vaccine used in the STEP study, co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine's creator, pharmaceutical giant Merck, looked promising in monkeys but failed miserably in human trials when it appeared to increase the rate of HIV transmission in study participants. "In the end," says Wayne Koff, senior vice president of research and development at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), "you can only extrapolate so much from a monkey model...
...some of the hardships of the past endure. Running water and electricity remain an ambition for thousands. Unemployment is 40%. Crime and drug addiction still thrive, and AIDS has decimated the population. Bryer says several of the choir members are HIV positive; many others are the sole breadwinners for extended families that include several AIDS orphans. Even if it had the money to flaunt its success, the choir decided early on not to do so, but instead to channel its energy and fund-raising abilities toward community projects, particularly the choir's own AIDS orphan foundation, Vukani. "We couldn...
...HIV is really a form of SIV that made the species jump from chimpanzees to humans sometime in the last century,” he said...
Still, the study adds little to understanding about the evolution of HIV, according to Joseph G. Sodroski, a professor of pathology at the Medical School...
...don’t think it says anything about HIV evolution, that I can see,” he said...