Experimental New HIV Vaccine

... Reduces the Risk of Infection.

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The vaccine was trialled in Thailand and given to a test group.

After three years, the rate of infection among the test group was discovered to be a third lower than the rate among an unvaccinated group.

While this news gives cause for cautious optimism, researchers and experts are at pains to emphasise that neither a vaccine nor a cure is on the horizon within the next few years.

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These discoveries are the first tentative steps towards a solid scientific breakthrough in this most challenging of medical fields.

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Source: DNA - 25/Set/2009.