Conference Coverage (12th World AIDS)

Gallo: Too Soon To Focus Solely on AIDS Vaccine

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 7th, 1998

It would be a mistake to focus all AIDS research activities on a vaccine, says HIV co-discoverer Robert Gallo.

Gallo warned that even though they represent immense progress, current AIDS therapies are not good enough. He urged researchers and policymakers to prioritize the search for better and less toxic AIDS therapies.

"The problem isn't solved: we need newer and better and less toxic drugs," he said in his plenary presentation to the 12th World AIDS Conference, held June 28-July 3, 1998, in Geneva, Switzerland. "It is too early to put all our efforts into the development of preventive vaccines."

In a later press conference,...

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