Post by BelizeanPoet on Mar 4, 2003 13:30:59 GMT -5
Uganda researchers have begun injecting volunteers with one of the world’s few prototype H.I.V/AIDS vaccines aimed at the strain of the virus ravaging east Africa. The trial will involve uninfected volunteers in Uganda considered to be at low risk of H.I.V infection. The trial will determine whether the vaccine is safe and creates immunity. The trials will go on for about two years .
About half a million people have died in Uganda from AIDS, and it is estimated that about 1.5 million are infected with H.I.V.
Researchers say the vaccine is the only one being tested on humans that is tailored to the virus common in Uganda and other east African countries, H.I.V. subtype A. Most vaccines being tested on humans are for subtypes other than A.
In the early 1980’s Uganda was at the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, but some studies show it has turned the tide of the disease by running an aggressive education program that advocates abstinence and safe sex.
EDUCATION IS POWER, I MYSELF WAS UNAWARE OF THE FACT THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT SUBTYPES OF THE DISEASE.
About half a million people have died in Uganda from AIDS, and it is estimated that about 1.5 million are infected with H.I.V.
Researchers say the vaccine is the only one being tested on humans that is tailored to the virus common in Uganda and other east African countries, H.I.V. subtype A. Most vaccines being tested on humans are for subtypes other than A.
In the early 1980’s Uganda was at the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, but some studies show it has turned the tide of the disease by running an aggressive education program that advocates abstinence and safe sex.
EDUCATION IS POWER, I MYSELF WAS UNAWARE OF THE FACT THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT SUBTYPES OF THE DISEASE.