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Conference Coverage (XI Int Conf on AIDS)

HIV Vaccine Seen As Key to AIDS Epidemic

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 22nd, 1996

The optimism fueled by the advent of effective anti-HIV drugs is a cruel joke to nations unable to afford even basic medicines.

Like the mythological figure Tantalus who starves with food dangling just out of reach, the vast majority of people with AIDS will never see the protease inhibitors that have stolen the show at the XI International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The one great hope is the development of an AIDS vaccine capable of preventing, and perhaps even treating, HIV disease.

"Vaccines will be overshadowed by developments in antiretrovirals, but remain the main issue...

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