HIV vaccines: an attainable goal?

HIV vaccines: an attainable goal?

Publication of the first efficacious large-scale HIV vaccine trial in 2009 prompted fresh hope that design of a protective vaccine against HIV may be achievable. In this review we explore the difficult task of eliciting protective immune responses to HIV and highlight the hurdles that vaccine design must still overcome.

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peoples. Values, lifestyles, standards of living and culture, so important to clinical understandings, lie midway. Health workers are more familiar with short and mid-distance factors, but improving the health of indigenous peoples requires a broad approach covering a wide spectrum of interventions. The Declaration of Health and Survival recommends several strategies including capacity building...

Primary Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease: Is It an Attainable Goal?

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, and the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the elderly. The prevalence of AD is predicted to rise as life expectancy grows across populations. The exact cause of this devastating disease is still unknown; however, it is an aging-related multi-factorial disorder, and growing evidence supports the contribution of modifiable envir...

HIV vaccines under study.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a worldwide epidemic, with over 42 million people currently infected. Since the discovery of HIV as the causative agent of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), many potential vaccines have been created. The first of these vaccines presented disappointing results; however, that has not deterred researchers from continuing to develop more...