Uganda tests trial AIDS vaccine

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Uganda tests trial AIDS vaccine

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(Africa Online Ltd.)  

Staff Reporter
KAMPALA, 17 February 2003

Ugandan AIDS researchers have started injecting volunteers with a test vaccine targeting the strain of the virus which ravages east Africa.

KAMPALA: The first phase of the trial involves about 50 uninfected volunteers. They are being given the vaccine to see whether it is safe and whether it creates immunity. Researchers say the vaccine cannot cause infection.

It is the only one being tested on humans that is tailored to the virus common in east Africa, HIV subtype A.

The trial is being conducted by Uganda's government and by the International Aids Vaccine Initiative. Uganda has aggressively fought AIDS with commercial partnerships to lower the cost of medication and an education program that advocates safe sex.

Some information for this report provided by Reuters.


 

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