Saturday, January 5, 2013

Spanish Research Team Develops Vaccine That Temporarily Brakes HIV

Scientists Say Vaccine Temporarily Brakes HIV.  AFP.  January 4, 2012.

While the results of the vaccine declined over time, the research team at Barcelona University's Hospital Clinic, said that the results were the best yet recorded for such a treatment.  After 12 weeks of the trial, the HIV load dropped by more than 90 among 12 of the 22 patients who receive the vaccine.  The basic approach of the vaccine was to instruct the immune system to learn to destroy the virus.

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