We are not there yet, but experts are optimistic about a jab to prevent HIV coming to market in the near future.
If the progress we see today is anything to go by, it means we are closer than ever to having an HIV vaccine.
An Australian scientist has said he discovered how to turn HIV against itself to stop it progressing to Aids.
A five-year study of HIV infected people is pointing the way for further work towards a vaccine.
Africa has been the poor relative with too few representatives at global HIV/Aids conferences. But things are changing, writes Mia Malan.
A leader in the search for a vaccine against HIV said on Friday that recent advances have given scientists new reason for hope.
HIV/Aids vaccine researchers should move to smaller, more focused trials and dump any vaccines that do not show strong promise.
United States scientists have scrapped plans for a large trial of a HIV vaccine due to concerns about its effectiveness.
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/ 12 September 2007
The complex biology of the HI virus has posed constant challenges and even a partially effective vaccine is still some years away.
The use of therapeutic vaccines was the major topic at the Immune Reconstitution and Control of HIV meeting in Italy last week.
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/ 26 September 2002
Three million Aids deaths can be averted and more than 2,5-million HIV infections prevented by 2015 through voluntary testing.
United States researchers have made progress in developing an Aids vaccine that would be effective against a range of strains of HIV.
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/ 6 December 2001
The Medical Research Council said South Africa’s first HIV/Aids vaccine trials may start as early as February next year.