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Article: Stakeholders regroup after failure of latest AIDS vaccine.(Infectious Diseases)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- October 15, 2008
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MEXICO CITY -- The development of an AIDS vaccine is likely to take a long time, and research needs to be more selectively focused on the most promising candidate vaccines, given the recent failure of the latest leading candidate to prevent infection in a large, international trial, according to the findings of a report aimed at setting priorities for AIDS vaccine research.
Experts at the International AIDS Conference discussed the status of AIDS vaccine efforts at a press conference to unveil the AIDS Vaccine Blueprint 2008. The document, published by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), is the fifth biennial report of its kind. It comes at a time ...