Editorial: A step closer to HIV prevention
Published in The Hindu on January 11, 2012 Time and again, HIV vaccine trials have proved right the dictum, ‘monkeys lie and mice do not always tell the truth’.…
Category: HIV vaccine trial
Editorial: AIDS vaccine – a ray of hope
Published in The Hindu on September 24, 2011 The search for an effective AIDS vaccine began a quarter-century ago and after a series of failures, there finally appears some reason…
Phase-I prime-boost AIDS vaccine trial shows modest immune response
Published in The Hindu on September 12, 2011 The final results of the Phase I prime-boost AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) vaccine trial started in February 2009 and conducted at…
Dedicated lab for HIV vaccine design
Published in The Hindu on March 3, 2011 After conducting a couple of AIDS vaccine trials in India, the New York based International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) is shifting its…
AIDS vaccine trial: prime-boost elicits modest immune response
Published in The Hindu on September 30, 2010 The preliminary results of the Phase I prime-boost AIDS vaccine trial started in February 2009 and conducted at the Tuberculosis Research Centre…
Editorial: Hyping science
Published in The Hindu on November 6, 2009 When a two-decade-long search for an effective vaccine to prevent HIV infection has been a failure, the pressure to hype and provide…
ALVAC-AIDSVAX AIDS vaccine unlikely to be a public health control measure
Published in The Hindu on October 22, 2009 The results of the Phase III AIDS vaccine trial using a prime-boost (ALVAC and AIDSVAX) vaccine undertaken in Thailand, published in The…
Phase I prime-boost AIDS vaccine trial on
Published in The Hindu on April 19, 2009 The first volunteer for the Phase I prime-boost AIDS vaccine trial, which will have a duration of two years, has been enrolled…
