Aids Vaccine
Merck Halts HIV Vaccine Trial: Vaccine is "Ineffective"
Representatives from Merck announced this week they will be stopping the vaccine trials for their HIV vaccine because it doesn’t work.
Gates Foundation Gives Aids Scientists $287m
Three British scientists looking for an Aids vaccine will be among the collaborators receiving a massive $287m (£156m) funding injection from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, it was announced last night.
Aids Vaccine Possible By 2012, Brown Tells Africa
An effective Aids vaccine could be found as early as 2012, saving 6 million lives if the world is willing to put £10bn a year into a new programme, the chancellor, Gordon Brown, said in a speech last night in Tanzania.
Race is on to Save the First Aids Vaccine. But Does It Even Work?
US firm pulls out of Thai trials amid claims of hype and manipulation. What was billed as the first Aids vaccine, with potential to end a global disaster that is killing millions every year, has ended with an ignominious whimper, as a Californian biotech...
Hope rises in Africa for Aids vaccine
Skim low over Lake Victoria on the approach to Entebbe and with a setting sun you catch a glint from the white buildings dotting the near shore. Clustered on a slope, they stand out from the hotels and yacht clubs as an oddly shaped jumble of bungalows, storehouses and offices.
Discovery of Immune Group in Uganda Raises Aids Vaccine Hopes
Scientists believe an effective Aids vaccine may be a step closer after studying an unexpected reponse to the HIV virus in individuals in Uganda who appear immune to infection. Just over two dozen people near Lake Victoria have been found to remain uninfected even though they have...
Aids Vaccine Fails Clinical Tests
The world's first attempted Aids vaccine proved a failure yesterday when, after four years' work, the Californian biotech company VaxGen announced that trial results showed that it did not protect those at risk of HIV infection. VaxGen did its best to put an optimistic spin on the...
Uganda starts human trials of Aids vaccine
Trials of a potential Aids vaccine for Africa have begun with human volunteers in Uganda, one of the worst hit countries on the continent, it was announced yesterday.
Vaccine hope within five years
Maker upbeat but power of drug in doubt. The first vaccine against Aids could be on the market within five years, it was announced yesterday. But news of the hoped-for breakthrough was tempered by expectations that results would show that it protects less than a third of those inoculated.
Aids vaccine 'may be ready within five years'
An American pharmaceuticals company today claimed to be in the final stages of testing an Aids vaccine, possibly providing a working vaccine within five years.
Africa seeks funds for Aids research
African Aids scientists yesterday launched an appeal for $233m (£164m) in an effort to shift the focus of research into an HIV vaccine from the west to the continent most blighted by the disease.
An effective Aids vaccine could be found as early as 2012, saving 6 million lives if the world is willing to put £10bn a year into a new programme, the chancellor, Gordon Brown, said in a speech last night in Tanzania.
Race is on to Save the First Aids Vaccine. But Does It Even Work?
US firm pulls out of Thai trials amid claims of hype and manipulation. What was billed as the first Aids vaccine, with potential to end a global disaster that is killing millions every year, has ended with an ignominious whimper, as a Californian biotech...
Hope rises in Africa for Aids vaccine
Skim low over Lake Victoria on the approach to Entebbe and with a setting sun you catch a glint from the white buildings dotting the near shore. Clustered on a slope, they stand out from the hotels and yacht clubs as an oddly shaped jumble of bungalows, storehouses and offices.
Discovery of Immune Group in Uganda Raises Aids Vaccine Hopes
Scientists believe an effective Aids vaccine may be a step closer after studying an unexpected reponse to the HIV virus in individuals in Uganda who appear immune to infection. Just over two dozen people near Lake Victoria have been found to remain uninfected even though they have...
Aids Vaccine Fails Clinical Tests
The world's first attempted Aids vaccine proved a failure yesterday when, after four years' work, the Californian biotech company VaxGen announced that trial results showed that it did not protect those at risk of HIV infection. VaxGen did its best to put an optimistic spin on the...
Uganda starts human trials of Aids vaccine
Trials of a potential Aids vaccine for Africa have begun with human volunteers in Uganda, one of the worst hit countries on the continent, it was announced yesterday.
Vaccine hope within five years
Maker upbeat but power of drug in doubt. The first vaccine against Aids could be on the market within five years, it was announced yesterday. But news of the hoped-for breakthrough was tempered by expectations that results would show that it protects less than a third of those inoculated.
Aids vaccine 'may be ready within five years'
An American pharmaceuticals company today claimed to be in the final stages of testing an Aids vaccine, possibly providing a working vaccine within five years.
Africa seeks funds for Aids research
African Aids scientists yesterday launched an appeal for $233m (£164m) in an effort to shift the focus of research into an HIV vaccine from the west to the continent most blighted by the disease.