Preventive HIV Vaccines

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Preventive HIV Vaccines

What Is a Vaccine? A vaccine is a medical product designed to stimulate your body's immune system in order to prevent or control an infection. An effective preventive vaccine trains your immune system to fight off a particular microorganism so... Read more »

NIAID Announces New Campaign to Raise Awareness of Preventive HIV Vaccine Research

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the launch of the "Be The Generation" public awareness campaign, challenging young Americans to be the generation that ends... Read more »

Promising New Research on Preventive and Therapeutic HIV Vaccines

May 18, 2011, was HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, a time to remind ourselves of the worldwide effort to create vaccines to help prevent HIV infection and to boost the immune systems of people already infected with the virus. The past three weeks have... Read more »

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Can we hope for a curative HIV vaccine? (VACCINE TRIALS, 2009)

Hi Dr. and thanks for your dedication & permanent support to all of us, you are wonderful.What is your opinion about the new preventive HIV vaccine? Do you think that we can build on it to have a curative vaccine soon? I know that you are...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,The news about the limited success of the recent AIDS prevention vaccine trial was unexpected and certainly welcomed, considering the numerous vaccine trial failures over the past decade. However, I agree with Tony Foci that this is not a... Read more »

Preventive/Therapeutic Vaccine

My question is regarding the potential discovery of a preventive vaccine vs. a therapeutic vaccine. If a preventive vaccine is ever discovered, how will this impact individuals who are already HIV positive? Further to this point, if a therapeutic...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

A truly preventative effective vaccine for HIV is not on the short-term horizon. Many of the potentially effective vaccines elicit a cellular immunity response which may be diasease modifying but may not prevent the infection (the term therapeutic... Read more »

Preventive Vaccines, What will it mean for positives?

Dear dr.For starters, I want to compliment you with the great work you're doing. Thanks a million!I read a recent interview (28 feb. 2005 - http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_hiv.cfm#28360) with dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

I think that work involved in preventive and therapeutic vaccines are related and complement each other. For example, the recent studies showing the potential of dendritic cell therapeutic vaccines could influence preventive vaccine researchers.... Read more »

preventive vaccine in canada approved by FDA, what will happen to millions infected then?

so finally there is preventive vaccine from canada got approved by FDA. seems the vaccine is 100% effective. in that case what will happen to millions already infected? they will be left unnoticed after there is preventive vaccine. why there is no...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Whoa there pardner,Criticism is good, but poorly researched criticism looks only like a rant and is disrespectful at the least.The preventive vaccine that you speak of hasn't been FDA approved, only the very first phase 1 clinical trial has... Read more »

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Posted by DUDE

The worldwide search for an HIV vaccine received a boost Thursday as the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced funding
of nine U.S. clinical units of the new HIV Vaccine Trials Network... Read more »

HIV Prevention Program Assistant D.C

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Assist senior prevention team members in carrying out activities in the CDC-funded program to provide technical assistance and conduct policy analysis on state HIV/AIDS prevention programs. Full description at: www.nastad.org.
Washington , District... Read more »

Therapuetic Vaccine?

Posted by Anonymous

Article in Science magazine today and in Washington Post describes success in monkeys with a "vaccine" that doesn't stop infection but controls viral load levels. The article is a bit confusing and seems to say it hasn't been tested on already... Read more »

some vaccine news - hope springs eternal

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

September 1 2000
BRITAIN

MP is first to test Aids vaccine

BY NIGEL HAWKES HEALTH EDITOR
A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT
MP yesterday became the first
person to take part in clinical
trials of an Aids vaccine... Read more »

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