HIV/AIDS Vaccine

Scientific challenges impeding HIV vaccine development reviewed

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 26th, 2004

The scientific challenges impeding HIV vaccine development were reviewed in a recent issue of the journal HIV Clinical Trials.

According to research from the United States, "Most initial work with HIV vaccines was directed at developing vaccines that elicited neutralizing antibodies. These neutralizing antibodies have been narrow in the focus of their action and specific almost entirely to the strain of the innoculating virus. Additionally, controversy has been reported about both the design of assay systems to measure the neutralization of such isolates and interpretation of the results."

"Researchers are now looking for a 'broad-spectrum'...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-01-26)

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