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2 unusual facts about HIV vaccine


HIV vaccine

Tests of a vaccine for SIV in monkeys found greater resistance to SIV in animals producing antibodies against this region.

In 1984, after the confirmation of the etiological agent of AIDS by scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Pasteur Institute, the United States Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that a vaccine would be available within two years.



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AIDSVAX

AIDSVAX is an experimental HIV vaccine that was developed originally at Genentech in San Francisco, California, and later tested by the VaxGen company, a Genentech offshoot.