Results Of HIV Vaccine Study 'Promising'

[William769]

Amsterdam, The Netherlands) A Swedish HIV vaccine study conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control has produced surprisingly good results the scientists said Thursday.

The vaccine developed by SMI scientists has now undergone the first clinical study on healthy individuals in Sweden in order to examine its safety and different methods of administration. The vaccine is what is known as a genetic vaccine, which uses parts of the virus DNA to stimulate the rapid endogenous production of the proteins for which the injected DNA codes.

Data from the study was presented Thursday at an HIV vaccine conference in Amsterdam.

Over 90 per cent of the subjects in the phase 1 trials developed an immune response to HIV, the researchers report.

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I believe finding a vaccine is paramount, I just hope the people who already have AIDs are not forgotten.

[IntiRaymi]

1. Big Pharma will not be happy.

Something that 'cures' is not good for business.
I wonder what logical trickery will be used to block this from being used in the USA.

[bluestateguy]

2. The religious right will not be happy

They applaud the spread of AIDS. They like scaring people into never having sex until they get married, and they like finger pointing at gay people.

[IntiRaymi]

3. I have always suspected a few things about research into AIDS in the USA

A huge chunk of the research grants handed out to academic researchers are provided for by industry. If you couple this to the obvious financial interest that these corporations have in the matter, you might be correct in thinking that a lack of finding is a result of a conflict of interest.
In other words, the money tells the principal investigators to look in fruitless directions, such as toxic treatments that will later be provided to the public at ruinous prices. Industry has long been uninterested in vaccines, and you would be hard pressed to find a large pharma actively involved in producing them.

[Fierce]

4. I always thought the same thing about breast cancer.

It's a lot more lucrative for everyone concerned to research a vaccine or cure than to pour money into researching causes from air, water and ground pollution.

[kestrel91316]

6. Some in Big Pharma will be VERY happy. I believe this might be

the vaccine Merial has been working on. They have a really great Feline Leukemia Virus vaccine that's been out for nearly 2 years - genetically engineered live canary-pox vectored vaccine. Completely incapable of causing the disease, because it does not contain the virus. Only a part of the genetic code that makes a protein subunit on the surface of the virus that stimulates immunity. Very, very cool, innovative vaccine that I hope and pray they can duplicate in humans for HIV. I had heard about this a while back.

[pinto]

5. Another step forward, no matter the turn out of further trials.