French HIV vaccine?

French vaccine fuels hope in AIDS treatment :

Preliminary study shows promise in suppressing virus



Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer
Monday, November 29, 2004

French researchers reported Sunday [Nov. 28] that an AIDS vaccine designed to treat the disease,
rather than prevent it,
has scored an initial success by suppressing the virus
for up to a year
among a small group of patients who tried it.

Although the technique is cumbersome and costly,
the experiment published in an online version of
the British journal Nature Medicine
is being touted as
"the first demonstration of an efficient
therapeutic vaccine
against AIDS."
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