AIDS Therapies

Experiment Combines Drugs with HIV Vaccine

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 9th, 1998

AIDS researchers said they were trying an approach against HIV by combining a vaccine with the triple-drug therapy that has been proved to suppress the virus.

The University of Pennsylvania researchers said they hoped a vaccine would work better in people who had the virus under control.

They said they would test 21 people who were taking the drugs. They would use various doses of a vaccine developed by Apollon Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania.

"We think we can get an enhanced response to the DNA vaccine in conditions where the immune system is not preoccupied simply with maintaining itself against an HIV infection," Dr. Rob Roy...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1998-02-09)

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