AIDS Vaccine - Finally!!!
After the world’s first successful AIDS vaccine has been tried and tested — protecting one in three people from getting HIV in a large study in Thailand — government leaders and scientists are now trying to improve it.
The World Health Organization and the UNAIDS said that the results gave hope to those concerned, even though it will be years before a vaccine will be thoroughly available. Scientists created the vaccine with a combination approach, using two types of vaccines that worked in different way.
The combo cut the risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 31 percent in the study of more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases co-sponsored the study and said that the outcome has given him cautious optimism and inspires him to develop a more effective AIDS vaccine.
Every day, there are 7,500 people around the world who are infected with HIV and in 2007, 2 million died of AIDS.
