Promising results for trial HIV vaccine
An experimental AIDS vaccine has, for the first time, prevented the virus infection, marking a medical milestone in the quarter-of-a-century battle against the disease.
The AIDS vaccine reduced the risk of infection by 31.2 percent. The project was carried out in the world's largest vaccine trial of more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand.
Led by the US Army and the Thailand Ministry of Public Health, the vaccine was an effective combination of two older vaccines, which had not cut infection on their own.
‘This is a very important scientific advance and gives us hope that a globally effective vaccine may be possible in the future,’ Colonel Jerome Kim of the US military HIV research program told a news conference in Bangkok.
‘It is the first demonstration that a vaccine against HIV can protect against infection,’ he said.
The outcome is described as a breakthrough in HIV vaccine development as it is for the first time ever there is evidence that HIV vaccine has preventive efficacy.
Source: presstv.ir
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