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MVA Clinical Trial in Africa Delayed.(Brief Article)

Vaccine Weekly

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2001 JAN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Trials of the first AIDS vaccine specifically designed for Africa were delayed on December 20, 2000, as researchers awaited government approval.

Trials of the vaccine, developed jointly by British and Kenyan scientists, will not begin until January or February 2001, health minister Sam Ongeri said.

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), which has sponsored the research, had planned to announce the start of trials on December 20.

Scientists from Britain's Medical Research Council, Oxford University, and the University of Nairobi have been collaborating for more than four years on two vaccines they hope will immunize people against the HIV virus that causes AIDS. They are basing much of their research on a group of Nairobi prostitutes who appear to be immune to the deadly disease.

The first vaccine, known as the DNA vaccine, has already been tested on primates and is now being tested on 15 human volunteers in England. Trials of the second vaccine, known as the MVA vaccine, were to begin in Britain in January 2001, said Andrew McMichael of the ...

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