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Alan Bernstein, executive director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, suggests that the debate over which analysis of the data matters most - as well as the rather clumsy manner in which the study was presented to the public - is secondary to what the research brings to the battle against HIV...
Despite the guarded optimism of researchers, AIDS activists in the U.S. and Europe resent what they refer to as the "hype" surrounding the trial's results, which they think continues to raise questions - unnecessarily - about its significance. But specialists like Frahm say that was bound to happen. Against the relentless...
The original version of this article stated that the two older vaccines used in the new experimental AIDS vaccine were proven ineffective in previous trials. In fact, only one was proven ineffective, while clinical testing of the other vaccine was abandoned before reaching Phase III trials for efficacy.
Read "Behind the Rising Doubts About Hailed AIDS Vaccine."
Yet even with all these warnings, people still hesitate to use vaccines, given the results of a recent survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health in which 41 percent of adults say they will not get vaccinated for H1N1. This statistic may seem surprising, since vaccinations have long...