HBV Vaccines

HBV Vaccine Natural Placebo for HIV Trials

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 13th, 1996

Hepatitis B vaccine would be a natural placebo arm in large-scale HIV vaccine trials, according to a report from Thailand.

A hepatitis B vaccine trial conducted in that country suggests that commercial sex workers and men being treated for sexually transmitted diseases would be good cohorts for HIV vaccine trials.

Researcher Chris Beyrer and colleagues found, however, that men recently released from the army did not respond favorably to the HBV vaccine program, suggesting that they would not make a good HIV vaccine cohort.

HIV-1 vaccines will eventually be evaluated in large-scale efficacy trials among persons at risk for the...

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