HIV Vaccines

AIDS Expert Warns Threshold Set Too High

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 5th, 2001

The current objective of most HIV vaccines - the absence of any infection of a human by HIV - is at the present time not possible, according to a pioneer HIV/AIDS researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

In an opinion piece in the January 20, 2001, issue of The Lancet, Jay Levy, MD, UCSF professor of medicine and one of the first to discover HIV, further asserted that an HIV vaccine with a more limited aim can be developed and could play a decisive role in preventing and controlling HIV disease. The title of his article was "What can be achieved with an HIV vaccine."

Levy explained why sterilizing immunity - the...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-02-05)

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