Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1995. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1995. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia, Inc. - 12 Nov 1995
The communist youth weekly, Juventud Rebelde, quoted Manual Limonta, head of Cuba's Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, as saying the Cuban formula was already being tested on small animals and would soon be tried on chimpanzees.
Limonta said he would be one of the first human volunteers on which the trial Cuban vaccine could be tested. Cuban scientists have been working on the vaccine for six years.
The communist-ruled Caribbean island has kept its own rate of AIDS relatively low through extensive programs of testing and a policy of isolating and caring for AIDS patients in special sanatoriums, according to official records. Up to April, Cuba had so far recorded 1,122 cases of people with the HIV virus that leads to AIDS, of whom 229 had died.
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