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Article: Tug-of-War Over Thailand in AIDS Squabble.
- Article from:
- Vaccine Weekly
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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A Japanese deal to develop and possibly test an AIDS vaccine in Thailand has been blasted as unethical.
The accusation, by an unnamed "leading Japanese researcher" cited in a news article in the journal Nature Medicine (1998;4(5):540), represents the latest salvo in an ongoing squabble among AIDS vaccine researchers.
On one side of the increasingly nasty debate are the empiricists. These tend to be corporate researchers wanting to advance candidate HIV vaccines to large-scale trials and researchers at public health agencies with experience conducting such trials (e.g., the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)).
On the other side are ...