HIV Vaccine Test - First Ever
Main Category: HIV / AIDSArticle Date: 17 Feb 2004 - 0:00 PDT
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An HIV vaccine will be tested for the first time by German scientists.
The first phase of the clinical trials will begin in the German cities of Hamburg and Bonn.
Fifty healthy volunteers will receive the vaccine.
According to Jan von Lunzen, team leader, none of the healthy volunteers runs the risk of being infected by the virus.
The researchers say that the vaccine has been designed to combat the HIV virus variant that is most spread in Africa and South East Asia. It is called tgAAC09.
Later phases of the trials will take place in Asia and SE Asia.
They say all the trials will take about eight years to complete.
They can develop the vaccine into a new one to protect against the variant that spread in Europe and N America, said von Lunzen.
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