First Phase of HIV Vaccine Trials Successful

[Gamma Ray]

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2006/08/first_phase_of.html


This is so promising!

 

[The_Raven]

There's still that pesky cancer to worry about.

 

[Edd Extraordinaire]

Awesome! This is great news!

 

[Matt]

This is great news! This combined with the Gates Foundation now dumping a ****load of money into research, I really do believe we will see the end of AIDS in the next 5 years.

 

[Enzyme]

Yeah it is great news, for the individual. For the population as a whole, we're continuing to fight any sort of decline in numbers. Not good.

 

[Excel]

thats fantastic! no more condoms!

 

[RogueLDN]

of course yeah aids is the only std ever.......

 

[Excel]

the only one i have yet to get

 

[RogueLDN]

oh im so proud for you, your parents must be soooo proud

 

[Avalanche]

Good news. Hopefully there'll be a full vaccine at some point. Of course, giving it to those who really need it (ie those in Africa where it is rife) will still be problematic in terms of funding.

 

[KingOfDreams]

Great news. Hopefully cancer and alzheimer's vaccines won't be far off.

 

[Mr. Thing]

Brilliant news.

 

[Assassin]

****, that means lumberjacks gonna live

 

[The Last Meatbag]

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2006/08/first_phase_of.html


This is so promising!

Our generation will be the generation who said "**** You AIDS!!!!"

Awesome


I fink...or sumfin

 

[Fred_Fury]

news stories like this, with 'amazing breakthroughs' always come along, and then you never hear anything more about them.

 

[Erundur]

Just as long as they do not jack up the prices if and when they do find the cure. I'll be happy

 

[Alpha and Omega]

"Forty-nine healthy people who received the injection showed no severe adverse reactions after 180 days, proving the vaccine was safe,"

What healthy person would take this risk?​

 

[St. of Sinners]

Just as long as they do not jack up the prices if and when they do find the cure. I'll be happy

They will. They've had medication that would allow someone with AIDS to live their entire natural life span by repressing the deadly symptoms and they've been witholding it from African nations for years. In 2000, Argentina set into effect a plan to manufacture these drugs and send them to African nations under a free-trade agreement and the deal was immediately halted when the U.S. had the WTO put a stop to it. Pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., Britain and Switzerland own the patents to these drugs and they refuse to let them go for cheap (regardless of the numbers of lives it would save). It's only a matter of time before this AIDS vaccine becomes patented and nations are held for ransom with it. It's unfortunate, but this is the world we live in that we choose to ignore in favor of news about Angelina Jolie's baby and Mel Gibson's outbursts.

 

[Iceman]

What healthy person would take this risk?​

There's a lot of money involved. Some people make a part time career out of being human guinea pigs. Most of the drugs are already at a stage where the chances of adverse reactions are low but I expected people (at least in the UK) to have learned their lesson after that incident where the victim's heads swelled to about four times their usual size. Anyone who does this kind of thing is taking a very serious gamble with their health.

 

[The Shape]

Step in the right direction.

 

[Bat Attack]

Awesome, awesome, awesome!

 

[Mr. Credible]

i am SO having unprotected sex tonight to celebrate!

woo hoo! drunk white women for everyone!

 

[The Chairman]

Very, very good news.

 

[Spider-Bite]

does anybody know if this will help people who already have the disease? I'm not sure but I think that 2 out of 5 people in Africa already have Hiv or Aids.

 

[St. of Sinners]

does anybody know if this will help people who already have the disease? I'm not sure but I think that 2 out of 5 people in Africa already have Hiv or Aids.

It could potentialy lead to a cure for those already suffering from AIDS, but as it stands it's a vaccination against contracting it. It would, if successful, stop the spread of the disease throughout Africa though, assuming that it is handled properly and given to those in need.