"HIV Vaccines: Resolved That More Fundamental Research on Vaccine Development is Required Prior to the Implementation of Phase III Trials of Certain HIV Vaccines."

According to an abstract submitted by the author to the 11th International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, British Columbia, "Society desperately needs a vaccine to slow HIV-1 spread. New drug therapies may help richer nations, but are unaffordable to most of the world. A vaccine and increased educational interventions provide the only hope for much of Africa, Asia and South America. But how is Western science best able to develop a vaccine' I believe candidate vaccines that are available for efficacy trials in 1996 lack the power to intervene significantly in the AIDS epidemic. Focussing resources on these products will not be helpful, and may actually be...

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