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UNAIDS Descries "AIDS Exceptionalism"

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 19th, 1999

Is AIDS the exception to established norms of vaccine-development'

No, says Jose Esparza of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). He suggested that the development of an HIV vaccine is "paralyzed" by issues that have been solved for other vaccines.

"Everything is magnified under the microscope of AIDS," Esparza said in a presentation to the Second Annual Conference on Vaccine Research, held March 28-30, 1999, in Bethesda, Maryland.

The UNAIDS representative listed a number of perceived obstacles to an AIDS vaccine:

The genetic variability of HIV makes a vaccine exceptionally difficult. Esparza...

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