HIV AIDS: Human Test Of HIV Vaccine Delivers Promising Result

HIV AIDS: Human Test Of HIV Vaccine Delivers Promising Result

Human test of the HIV vaccine delivers promising results. Infections from multiple strains of the HIV virus might be prevented through this vaccine been produced. A team of scientists led by Harvard University in the quest to prevent HIV has indeed  made a tremendous and important progress. There has been early success testing a multi-strain vaccine in humans. All the people who received the HIV vaccine had at least a kind of anti-HIV immune system response, with more than 80% percent showing responses that are more advanced as possible. 

It was also found in the research that it was the same HIV vaccine that protected Rhesus monkeys from the simian-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which would suggests that this might be effective against HIV. The group is not saying they have found an effective HIV vaccine. While the Rhesus monkey test is in fact yielding positive results, there is need to have more of the HIV vaccine tests to prove that the vaccine could be effective in fending off the HIV infection in humans. What is to be done next is to test the new HIV vaccine on 2,600 women in the south of the Africa continent who are at risk of contracting the HIV virus. This vaccine is not the only one to ever make it this far in testing, but those that have come this far, were not effective enough to go any further.

However, there is a strong incentive this HIV vaccine would succeed. Unlike before where only the the HIV strains are focused on, this vaccine is a 'mosaic' that multiple strain pieces are added in order to create a more universal drug. If the research is effective doctors could then administer the vaccine on a large scale unlike previous trial vaccines that only worked on a small population even if they had been effective. This does not represent a catch-all solution, but if successful this might land a significant blow in the struggle against HIV as whole.