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Vol. 1, No. 6, 24 July 2001
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AIDScience Perspective:
Gallo on HIV vaccines
Robert Gallo talks with AIDScience about his own work and the past and future of HIV vaccines. Together with other scientists, he now seeks to start the Waterford Project, a 'Manhattan Project' for HIV vaccine research and development.
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Hot News:
Study shows steady partners are source of HIV for young gay men (Amsterdam Cohort Study among Homosexual Men)
The study concludes that young gay seroconverters today are more likely to have contracted HIV from a steady partner than from a casual partner, compared with early in the AIDS epidemic and compared also with older gay seroconverters.
AIDS 15(10):1303-1308, Jul 6 2001 [Study not yet published online]
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Evaluation of a regional pilot program to prevent mother-infant HIV transmission—Thailand, 1998-2000
From the MMWR: The findings in this report indicate that interventions to reduce mother-infant HIV transmission can be implemented successfully on a large scale in Thailand. These interventions, integrated into existing maternal and child health-care services, were acceptable to most women and reduced mother-infant HIV transmission from an estimated 30% to approximately 10%.
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Protection against simian immunodeficiency virus vaginal challenge by using Sabin poliovirus vectors
First report of a successful primate protection experiment against a vaginal challenge with a highly virulent simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) by using a live RNA virus vector based on Sabin 1 and 2 vaccine strain viruses.
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