HIV vaccine in 10 years

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Dear Colleagues

Hear is a news published in The Hindu. This might be music to our ear. Certainly

this an encouraging news for those who are working without taking rest in the

erradication of this deadly disease. Web site address is

http://www.hindu.com/2005/09/14/stories/2005091404931400.htm

LONDON: Vaccines which are at least partly effective against AIDS may be

available in a decade, an expert suggested on Monday. Hill, from Oxford

University, was cautiously optimistic about progress towards one of medicine's

holy grails, although he suggested that the first available vaccine might only

slow the progress of HIV rather than stop it. However, he believed vaccines that

could properly combat TB in developing countries might be ready by 2010, with

defences against malaria following shortly afterwards. BCG, the present jab

against TB in this country, is only used for high-risk groups. Professor Hill's

team is carrying out trials of a malaria vaccine in Kenya, while tests of the TB

vaccine are under way in Africa. Prof. Hill outlined the developments at the

Health Protection Agency's conference at Warwick University. New ways of

developing vaccines are encouraging scientists. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited

2004

Dhananjay.

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