Hopeful--but cautious.

Big news in HIV/AIDS today!

 

For the first time, an experimental HIV vaccine seems to cut the risk of infection, researchers say. The vaccine--which was a combination of two earlier experimental vaccines--was given to about 16,000 people in Thailand, in the largest vaccine trial of its type.

"This result is tantalizingly encouraging. The numbers are small and the difference may have been due to chance, but this finding is the first positive news in the AIDS vaccine field for a decade," said Dr Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet. "We should be cautious, but hopeful. The discovery needs urgent replication and investigation."  

This is great news because we need all the tools we can access to reduce the current impact and, eventually, eliminate HIV.

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