On AIDS vaccine trial in India

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Thanks for inviting me to join the group. Still I am intrigued by the fact

how you came to know me and how am I got included in this list.

Anyway, Thanks for that. I am working in the field of HIV and actively

involved in the treatment of patients in HIV. For two years I worked in

Nepal and we had largest number of HIV patients in Nepal.

Regarding HIV vaccine: I attended the " International congress of

Immunology " held in New Delhi in Nov 1998 when preliminary discussion

regarding AIDS vaccine in trial started.

I want to bring the fact that there are many clades of HIV virus in circulation

like clade A and B which are common in US and Europe and Clade C and D which are

common in Thailand and India respectively. The vaccine which has been developed

on the basis of trials on one clade cannot be tried in a society which has a

different clade in circulation. I would like to know - How the vaccine has been

developed. Secondly if the trials are also starting in US simultaneously or

not.

Dr. Anurag Bharadwaj

MD, DM clinical Immunology

Associate Professor of Medicine

Melaka- Manipal Medical College

Jalan Batu Hampar, Bukit Baru, 75150 Melaka.Malaysia

Tel: 60-6-2925851 Ext.1041(Off)1076(Res)

Fax: 60-6-2925852

Email: anurag@...

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