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Researchers Say There Will Be An AIDS Vaccine Within 10 Years.
2001 OCT 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers are optimistic an AIDS vaccine will be available within 10 years, but it's unlikely to be fully effective against all strains of the virus, a U.S. health expert said.
Margaret Johnston, Associate Director of AIDS vaccines at the National Institutes of Health in the United States, said there were dozens of vaccine prototypes under development around the world, with some 9,000 people participating in clinical trials.
"There's never been more optimism than there is now that an HIV vaccine can be identified,'' Johnston told delegates to the 6th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Melbourne.
"However, we don't know what it will look like just yet. We don't know how it will act. Clinical trials will take a long time and it's likely the first (vaccines)...will not be 100% effective.''
Some 36 million people around the world are living with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, according to the United Nations' AIDS agency, UNAIDS. Since the epidemic began ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Researchers Say There Will Be An AIDS Vaccine Within 10 Years.