New Vaccine To Prevent The Aids Virus

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AIDS Vaccines

What Is a Vaccine? How Does a Vaccine Work? What's Different About AIDS Vaccines? How Are AIDS Vaccines Tested? How Close Are We to an AIDS Vaccine? What About People Who Are Already Infected? What Else Is Being Studied? Next Steps What Is a Vaccine? The body's immune system normally reacts to anything it recognizes as foreign and tries to eliminate it. A vaccine is a substance that helps the immune system respond to a...

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Can get new Virus?

Hye there,My name is Mat, i'm from Malaysia.i'm +ve Hiv, if i having sex with someone which is +ve too, can i get a new HIV virus from him/her?...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi Mat,Yes, it's possible. See below. I recommend safer sex techniques (condoms) even if both partners are HIV positive, not only to prevent superinfection with another strain of HIV, but also to prevent other unrelated STDs.Dr. BobSex after 50... Read more »

A new vaccine?

Dear Dr Bob,My lover is H positive. I love him so much and I look for the news about HIV/AIDS vaccine everyday. I have read this http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/6/prweb530962.htm.Is there any hope from this?I thank you for your answer.Best...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Tom,Despite 20,000 volunteers enrolled in over 30 vaccine trials across two dozen countries worldwide, neither a preventative nor a therapeutic vaccine will be available or "ready for prime time" within the foreseeable future. There... Read more »

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 »

a new vaccine?

Hello,I just read about a new vaccine developed in Switzerland which is a combination of ADN HIV C and NYVAC HIV C. Have you heard of it? Is this a new hope for us who are already infected or is it just for people to become immune and not get...

Response from Eric Daar, M.D.

UCLA School of Medicine

I am not familiar with the particular vaccine or study you refer to but I can assure you that all HIV vaccines in development are still in the relatively preliminary stages and it will take time and considerable more study before they will be... Read more »

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Prezista - New PI designed for Resistant Virus

Posted by Survivor, 2 Replies

WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Friday approved the use of a new HIV drug, made by Johnson & Johnson <JNJ.N>, in combination with related therapies to help treat patients who do not first improve with other... Read more »

Gallo's New Virus

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FAMED AIDS SCIENTIST DISCOVERS NEW VIRUS

By Gina Kolada
The New York Times

Washington D.C. (December 17)--Dr. Robert Gallo, discoverer of the AIDS virus, stunned the scientific community today with the discovery of a... Read more »

New vaccine shows promise!!!!!

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Novel Vaccine Activates HIV Immunity, Slows AIDS Virus
Monday, November 29, 2004
By Daniel J. DeNoon

It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks.

The vaccine is made from a patient's... Read more »

New HIV virus - Is this the final answer?

Posted by TwinsDad, 2 Replies

My question is:
Why we Humans do not create a new virus strain that will merge with the original HIV virus and create a different mutation that will replicate until it reaches several mutations that are not bad for our organism or changes the... Read more »

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