AIDS Vaccines

Sobered AIDS Researchers Look To Vaccine

Published in Vaccine Weekly, December 15th, 1997

Scientists have admitted the cocktail of drugs that originally offered hope of a cure cannot eradicate the virus.

They have been told it is still too soon to try out the vaccine considered to be the most hopeful, and have learned the HIV epidemic is worse than anyone thought.

Just over a year ago, the community was euphoric over news that a triple cocktail of AIDS drugs - the old standby AZT, plus a similar drug and one of a then-new class of drugs called protease inhibitors - could knock the virus into apparent submission.

Now it is clear the virus has not been vanquished, even when a fourth new drug is added to the mix.

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (1997-12-15)

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