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The difference is small but critical because the new success rate of 26% falls below the threshold for statistical significance. That means that the odds of being protected from infection by the AIDS vaccine may be no better than chance.
It is an emotional cycle familiar to most AIDS-vaccine researchers: the high of finally making measurable headway against HIV, followed by the crushing low of discovering that the virus has once again found a way to elude them.
It happened again on Saturday when researchers learned that the first ever successful AIDS vaccine turned out not to be the triumph they had originally hoped. In September, scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Army announced the results of an AIDS-vaccine study in Thailand...
At issue is a matter of head count. If the entire group of volunteers who were enrolled in the study were included in the data, then the results would suggest a 31% effectiveness rate, with 51 in the vaccine arm and 74 in the control group becoming infected with HIV...
The Thai study is already a winner in that researchers now have a population of patients who are protected against infection with HIV after inoculation; they can begin to analyze the patients' immune responses more closely to tease out the elusive factors that shielded them from HIV. That's more...