HIV Vaccines

Scientists Reveal Possible New Target

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 2nd, 2000

Scientists have shown for the first time, using a non-human primate model, that HIV avoids the body's strongest immune responses during the first few weeks of infection.

The finding, which appeared in the September 21, 2000, issue of Nature, opens the door to new vaccine directions.

"We have discovered a potentially promising new approach to attack the AIDS virus," says David Watkins, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"We have found that this early immune evasion allows the virus to sidestep a massive killer T-cell response that occurs soon after infection," he added. ...

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