South Africa to launch first AIDS vaccine trial.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of article titled "Green light for AIDS vaccine trial in South Africa" published by South African newspaper The Star on 19 June; subheadings inserted editorially

After two years of waiting, South Africa's first AIDS vaccine trial has finally been approved. The Medicines Control Council (MCC) quietly gave the go-ahead for human studies of the vaccine on 6 June following a meeting in Pretoria with vaccine scientists the previous day.

This means human testing of the first ever AIDS vaccine based exclusively on the C-strain of HIV, which occurs predominantly in southern Africa, could start in South Africa within the next two months.

"This is the first …