IUBio

Will HIV vaccine help people already infected?

JnaC (Jonah) jonah_williams at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 2 13:16:39 EST 2001


Reference recent article in New Scientist today:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991505

I wonder if anyone could help me.  I have a few friends who are
healthy, but HIV+

Referencing the above article in New Scientist regarding us being a
step closer to a global HIV vaccine.

I understand from the article that monkeys who were infected *after*
the vaccination still became infected, but that the loadings even
after a year were very very low.

I'd like to know if a vaccine like this would help someone who is
*already* positive (i.e. if such a thing were introduced into an
already positive person, would it still have the same effect?)

I have a scientific interest but not in this field - can anyone answer
this for me?  I'd appreciate an email back on
jonah_williams at hotmail.com if anyone can answer for me.

My thanks in advance.

Jonah - UK.





More information about the Immuno mailing list

Send comments to us at biosci-help [At] net.bio.net