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mRNA HIV Vaccine Development Programme launches in Africa

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With the participation of experts from Africa, inroads are being made into an mRNA HIV vaccine. The non-profit scientific research organisation, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and Moderna announced that the first participant screenings for a Phase I clinical trial…

LililtaG
May 23, 2022

COVID-19 to HIV Vaccines: lessons learnt from the COVID-19 vaccine development

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Researchers have been trying to develop an HIV vaccine for about four decades without success. However, the successful development of a COVID-19 vaccine could provide lessons for scientists.

Nompilo Gwala
June 14, 2021

#Aids2020: Why the COVID19 vaccine also needs to be tested in Africa

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Experts say that testing a Covid-19 vaccine on the continent does not mean that Africans are being used as guinea pigs.

Nelisiwe Msomi
July 9, 2020

Large scale HIV vaccine study failed, but there’s hope

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Scientists and advocacy groups are hopeful that findings from the HVTN 702 study will pave the way for more robust HIV prevention vaccines in the future.

jamesthabo
February 4, 2020

Vaccine volunteers are making history

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The only HIV vaccine that has shown some effect against HIV is now being tested in South Africa.

kerrycullinan
December 1, 2016

Scientists, mystery woman unlock path to new HIV vaccine

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Known only by a number – CAP256 – one South Africa woman may hold the key to an HIV vaccine.

lauralopez
March 4, 2014
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Picker’s monkey cure is the talk of the AIDS vaccine conference

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Dr Louis Picker’s monkeys, who cured themselves of primate HIV after being vaccinated, are the talk of this week’s AIDS Vaccine Conference in Barcelona.