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HIV/AIDS
Scientific Consensus on AIDS Vaccine Prospect is Bleak, Poll Reveals
May 7th, 2008
Scientific consensus on the prospect for development of an effective preventive AIDS vaccine is bleak, according to the results of a poll of AIDS researchers and scientists which was released earlier today. The poll of AIDS scientists offered significant additional credibility to the recent public call by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) to halt U.S. government funding of repeatedly failing AIDS vaccine research -- which for more than 20 years has shown few results other than how not to develop a vaccine. In a poll of more than 35 top HIV/AIDS scientists in Great Britain and the U.S. conducted by Britain's The Independent newspaper, "nearly two-thirds believed that an...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-05-07)
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