HIV Vaccine

The recent news about vaccine developments and the partial success of trials in Thailand has received a lot of news coverage in recent days. It is too early to give an unqualified welcome to the news but the following links to newspaper articles provided by the National AIDS Trust give a sense of the key issues surrounding vaccine development.

• Q&A: HIV vaccine trial yields positive results, Financial Times

• Elisabeth Pisani - The development of the vaccine could lead to dangerous complacency, The Times

• The fruits of scientific persistence, The Independent

• Africans resigned to long wait before drugs are available, The Independent

• An experimental vaccine for HIV offers grounds for optimism but is not a miracle cure and does not replace the need for ‘safe sex’ education, The Times

• Ethics bypassed in drug trials, Guardian