What if they are low risk because AIDS and HIV have nothing to do with each other, as a growing number of scientists, led by Dr. Peter Duesberg of the University of California at Berkeley, have been saying for years?  - SM

“Kenya: Tests for An AIDS Vaccine”

New York Times (www.nytimes.com) (03/07/01) P. A6

Researchers have launched tests of an AIDS vaccine based on research from a group of Nairobi prostitutes.  One of the first volunteers for the tests on low-risk individuals was Dr. Pamela Mandela, a nose and throat specialist who noted, “With this step I am fighting back.”  The vaccine was developed after researchers came across a group of prostitutes in Nairobi’s Majengo area who, despite repeated exposure to the virus, never contracted HIV.

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