HIV Vaccines

Vaccine That Could Prevent or Delay HIV Disease Called "Realistic"

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 22nd, 1996

If vaccines cannot protect against HIV infection, would it be enough for them to prevent or delay disease onset'

If so, new non-human primate experiments show that two different vaccine strategies might offer significant protection against HIV disease.

To date, only live attenuated vaccines have been able to protect primates against challenge with HIV's close relative, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). Such live vaccines, although still under consideration, must overcome serious safety issues before they can be given to humans.

But new studies, reported in the Journal of Virology by Colorado State University researchers Sally...

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