AIDS/HIV (Transmission)

Heterosexual AIDS Epidemic Could Expand in U.S., Europe

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 25th, 1996

AIDS among heterosexuals would greatly increase in the U.S. and Europe if HIV strains common in most of the world became established in the west, a leading expert warned.

Nearly all HIV vaccines currently in development use antigens derived from U.S. and European strains.

But according to Harvard AIDS Institute researcher Max Essex, AIDS is not the same epidemic in all parts of the world.

"We have two distinctly different HIV epidemics," Essex said during a plenary address to the Eighth Annual Meeting of the National Cooperative Vaccine Development Groups for AIDS (NCVDG), held February 11-15, 1996, in Bethesda, Maryland.

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