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There is still a long way to go, both in the quest for an effective treatment and in the search for a way to prevent infection in the first place. In the flush of the new optimism, some scientists are more hopeful about the prospects for gene therapy, which could...
Unfortunately, scientists still don't understand what an HIV vaccine must do to confer immunity. Bolognesi hopes to develop a kind of booster shot that, although it might be less than 100% protective, could help the immune system hold the virus at bay until a truly effective vaccine is discovered...
For Omuga, this year's good news on AIDS underscores a bitter truth: the new combination therapies are of little use to 90% of the people suffering from the disease. In Africa, India, Thailand and to a growing extent Central and Eastern Europe, the treatment's price tag of up...
Virtually every AIDS expert agrees that only an effective vaccine can halt the epidemic. Yet after more than a decade of trying to develop one, scientists have made little headway. The failure can be traced in part to the notorious craftiness of the virus itself. Researchers still aren't sure...
Yet the problem is only partly technical. It also lies in the priorities of those funding the research. Even after the announcement two weeks ago of a new AIDS-vaccine initiative at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, vaccine research remains the poor stepsister of the anti-AIDS effort. It...