Promising Treatment to Prevent HIV
Published: June 21, 2005
It’s being touted as the most promising aids vaccine in more than 20 years.
Millions of people around the world are infected with HIV.
Now scientists hope new research will help prevent HIV from spreading.
For more than 20 years, it’s been a struggle for AIDS researchers like Dr. Julie McElrath.
“HIV is tricky. It is definitely eluding us,” she says.
Since the mid-80’s, scientists have been trying to produce an AIDS vaccine. There have been countless studies that have enrolled people like Wendy Hilliker.
“It was important for me because I had seen people that I cared about — people that I’d worked with — succumb to AIDS,” says Wendy.
The virus has a crafty ability to mutate and evade drugs designed to fight it. But some promising findings from yet another vaccine offer new hope.
“For now, we think it’s the best thing we’ve seen yet, ever… and that it really deserves full scale testing, and we hope that the data will be good,” says Dr. McElrath.
A large study has just started in the U-S and other countries to test a vaccine that sends synthetically produced H-I-V genes into the body. That tricks the body into producing cells that can kill the virus.
“The vaccine itself is not HIV. It’s not going to give you HIV infection, but it’s going to allow the body to recognize pieces of HIV and to make an immune response,” Dr. McElrath says.
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The Cure For HIV / AIDSAs the research moves forward, researchers believe they’re getting closer to their goal. So far, the vaccine has produced the strongest T-cell immune response against the AIDS virus…. ever.
Since the first HIV vaccine trial in 1987, researchers have studied more than 50 different preventative vaccine candidates in more than 70 government-funded clinical trials.
None has lived up to expectations, so far.
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