French vaccine fuels hope in AIDS treatment Preliminary study shows promis

[seriousstan]

French researchers reported Sunday that an AIDS vaccine designed to treat the disease, rather than prevent it, has scored an initial success by suppressing the virus for up to a year among a small group of patients who tried it.

Although the technique is cumbersome and costly, the experiment published in an online version of the British journal Nature Medicine is being touted as "the first demonstration of an efficient therapeutic vaccine against AIDS."

The vaccine was tested in Brazil on 18 volunteers who were already infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but who were not yet taking any antiviral drugs. After four months, the level of HIV in their bloodstreams had been reduced an average of 80 percent.

By the end of one year, eight patients in the group had maintained a 90 percent reduction in virus particles in their bloodstream. Four of those patients had virus levels so low that they were comparable to so-called "long- term non-progressors," a rare cohort of people infected with HIV who never seem to get sick.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/29/MNGQ4A35T11.DTL&type=printable

[SmartBomb]

1. "Uh oh, time to whip up a new strain"

Monkeys my ass.

[elehhhhna]

2. Figgers the dang Frenchies want to save the gays...

[Florida_Geek]

3. Frenchies and the South Koreans going around trying to kill

Bush's Pill pushing companies...... About fucking time. :)

[ecoalex]

4. Aids cure and vaccine already exists

do a search of tetrasil infusion , a cure for aids. The CDC has a vaccine for aids already. This is all B.S. so the drug cos. can sell drugs. go to www.boydgraves.com get the truth about aids.

[NickB79]

5. Excuse me while I add a few layers

more tinfoil to my helmet.....

You do realize that there are dozens of nations around the world working on HIV/AIDS research, not just the US government and US-based pharma companies, right? What you're implying is a conspiracy so large it encompasses every developed nation, and hundreds of drug firms, worldwide, and to what point? US drug companies making profits? If there was an easily produced cure or vaccine already available, the Chinese, Russians, or the Europeans would be mass-marketting it and making massive profits by now, leaving us in the dust.