A LOT of hype, a little hope and the usual clashes between activists and scientists featured at the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona last week.
Vaccines have made some progress, but don’t believe everything you hear. The report that VaxGen’s AIDSVAX is in late-stage clinical trials in Thailand and elsewhere triggered speculation that a vaccine could be available by 2005. But many scientists think AIDSVAX’s chances of working are virtually nil. And there’s only slightly less pessimism about a large trial due to start later this year that will test AIDSVAX in combination with another potential vaccine.
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