HIV/AIDS Vaccine

Review of vaccines for AIDS and Ebola virus infection published

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 17th, 2003

A review of vaccine approaches for preventing AIDS and Ebola virus infection has been released.

According to recent research published in the journal Virus Research, "Ebola virus and HIV present challenges for vaccine development because natural immunity to these viruses is difficult to find, and there are no immune correlates of protection in humans."

"Modern molecular genetic, virologic and immune analyses have been used to rationally identify promising approaches based on animal model and human clinical studies," reported Gary J. Nabel at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States. "Improved vaccine...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2003-06-17)

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