"AIDS This Week: U.S. Begins Vaccine Trial"

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"AIDS This Week: U.S. Begins Vaccine Trial"

OutWeek (12/19/90) No. 77, P. 26
Coleman, Paul Rykoff

Abstract: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently sanctioned human trials of Immuno-Aq, an experimental AIDS vaccine made from recombinant gp160, an HIV surface molecule. The National Institutes of Health developed the vaccine and will conduct trials for safety and immune efficacy at five U.S. sites affiliated with the government's Vaccine Evaluation Units. The trials will determine if the vaccine stimulates a strong immune response against HIV. The double-blind trials will involve healthy, HIV-negative men and women aged 18-60, currently being recruited, who will receive either the vaccine or a placebo. Volunteers will receive increasing doses of the vaccine and will be evaluated for 30 months.

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