Guest lazyphil Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8272113.stm cant see another thread with this snippet. ks bin it if there is please, nothing more annoying than multiple threads on same news item! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 I think you will find the drug was actually developed by an Australian biotech company Avexa and trialled in LOS. Unless this a completely different HIV vaccine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonjon058 Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 51/8197 vs. 77/8198 doesn't seem significantly different given all the other uncontrolled variables in such an experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 ...and LOS has world wide approval for such a vaccine? LOS has the expertise to produce such a vaccine? After dealing with the doctors and the hospital (Samitivej) for the past two months...my vote is, hell NO. Up to you...YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted September 27, 2009 Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 I would suggest anyone actually interested in this to read this article instead of the superficial barely accurate BBC one. . It never ceases to amazing to me the stupid, ill informed comments people make without bothering to find out at least one fact. This was a 3 year field trial, sponsored by the US Surgeon General in which two existing vaccines, both of which had been shown to be worthless on their own, were tested on 16,000 non HIV positive volunteers in Thailand. Half were given the combined regime, the other half placebos. All were given AID’s prevention education and condoms. After 3 years, 74 of the 8,000 placebo volunteers contracted AIDS and 51 of the 8,000 vaccinated ones contracted AID. They are claiming that the regime decreased the chance of contracting AIDS by 31%( (74-51)/74 = 31% ) The two vaccines were developed some time ago by the Sanofi Pasteur in France and Vaxgen Inc in San Francisco. Vaxgen sold the rights to a non-profit orginzation when its vaccines miserably failed its field trails. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted March 8, 2012 Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 Current info: http://www.hivresearch.org/home.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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