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HIV trials in SA

Sunday Times (Johannesburg) - October 21, 2009
Claire Keeton

South African HIV-vaccine researchers are keen to conduct a large-scale clinical trial here similar to that in Thailand of a vaccine shown to be the first to succeed in preventing infection by the deadly virus.

One of the scientists who collaborated in the Thai trials, Col Nelson Michael, director of the US military's HIV research programme, said at the Aids Vaccine 2009 conference in Paris: "A study in a country like South Africa, where the scientific community is so robust and the sub-types of HIV are relatively few, would create a lot of interest."

A local trial would be unlikely to use the vaccine tested in Thailand because the subtype of the virus common in Thailand is rare here.


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