HIV/AIDS Prevention

New collaborations offer hope for HIV/AIDS vaccine

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 14th, 2005

Prospects for a safe, effective AIDS vaccine are improving as researchers from the public and private sectors begin to collaborate in new and creative ways, researchers said at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC.

According to the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS (UNAIDS) approximately 39 million people are living with HIV, and an estimated 4.9 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2004 alone.

New vaccines take decades to create, and the process can be slowed down when researchers work independently. Another reason that we don't have an AIDS vaccine yet is that...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2005-03-14)

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