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News Briefs VaxGen's AIDS Vaccine to Be Reviewed by FDADecember 17, 2002 A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information! VaxGen Inc. said yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration had agreed to an accelerated review of its experimental AIDS vaccine. VaxGen is testing the vaccine for preventing HIV infection in a pivotal stage, or phase III, trial among 5,400 people in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands and Puerto Rico. The company said it expects to announce preliminary results in the first quarter of 2003. Another pivotal-stage trial of a vaccine version intended to fight HIV subtypes prevalent in Southeast Asia is being conducted in Thailand, and those results are expected in the second half of next year. Back to other CDC news for December 17, 2002 New York Times 12.17.02; Reuters A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information!  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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