AIDS Vaccine Development: Challenges and Opportunities

Results presented by Safrit and his colleagues at the recent AIDS Vaccine conference demonstrate a number of encouraging results. The following presentations illustrate current progress:

The development of a new medicine that can fight persistent infections and/or the increase of the disease and contamination of others. This medicine is a paradigm change that, if a vaccine will not be found, can potentially protect large groups.

In addition another possible vaccine against HIV that activated the immunity of over 80% of the examined participants on a study of the medicine in the first trial phase.

Stronger reactions and progressions of the antibodies on HIV organisms by application of new methods.

The major importance of activating massive education and prevention methods specified to adolescents that form the most important risk group of infection.

The fight against the shortage of condoms and the importance of male circumcision.

Because of the unique human characteristics of the virus up till now, there have been limited possibilities for research on other species. For the first time however progress has been made by experimental HIV infections on mice with human bloodcells.

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