A study give hope in the fight against AIDS

According to the New York Times and CNN, a study started in 2006 in Thailand and using 16,402 volunteers, showed that a vaccine had a significant result. Apparently, half of the volunteers received a combination of 6 vaccines over 6 months and the other half received placebos. They were all followed during 3 years and the trials showed that the vaccined ones were 31 percents less likely to get infected by the HIV than the placebos receivers. The Vaccine is now known as RV 144. This is a big step in the research against this virus that kills millions of people each year. Colonel Jerome Kim told CNN that "before this study, it was thought vaccine for HIV is not possible" as a reaction on these hopeful results. Moreover, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the trial's bakers added to The New York Times that "there's [not] any doubt that this is a very important result". "For more than 20 years now, vaccine trials have essentially been failures".

An AIDS Vaccine Conference will take place in Paris, France next month, where researchers will expose the details of their initial findings.

We also know that this study was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the U.S Army Medical Research and Material Command.