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Wars are usually launched with the promise of a quick victory, with trumpets primed never to sound retreat. And the campaign against AIDS was no exception. Soon after researchers announced in the mid-1980s that they had discovered the virus that causes AIDS, U.S. health officials confidently crowed that a...
There is no vaccine, no cure and not even an indisputably effective treatment. While AIDS education has slowed the epidemic in developed countries, the disease continues to spread rapidly in many poorer nations. The World Health Organization says at least 30 million people around the world could be infected with...
Hardly any of the news at the conference was good. As groups of protesters staged daily demonstrations demanding more action against the epidemic, Dr. Jonas Salk suggested that vaccine researchers were on the wrong track, and the actress Elizabeth Taylor blasted President Bush for not doing enough about AIDS. Delegates...
The same adaptability that makes HIV so troublesome to drug designers threatens to stymie vaccine development as well. Researchers are not at all confident that they can devise a simple series of shots that would give a person lifetime protection against AIDS. To do that, a vaccine would have to...
There was also progress last week on another vaccine; the step forward may have been smaller, but the disease much more widespread and deadly. Researchers in the U.S. and France presented a report in the journal Science on a breakthrough in creating a vaccination against aids. The scientists had already...