It targets a strain of the HIV virus that is predominant only in Europe and Asia.
Peptide vaccines: These also train the immune system to recognize proteins associated with the HIV virus.
Tracking the spread of the HIV virus, the author finds familiar patterns in different countries.
Almost half of South Africa's mineworkers are said to be infected with the HIV virus.
Robert Gallo, who co-discovered the HIV virus, hopes a bold new approach may finally produce a vaccine.
Bacterial vaccines, which used modified bacteria to try to train the immune system to fight the HIV virus.
Scientists had attempted to model a 3D structure of a protein associated with the HIV virus for 15 years and failed.
This stands in contrast to AIDS where patients get cocktails of targeted pills that keep the HIV virus at bay for years.
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The HIV virus reproduces with a cell, then virus particles bud off that cell's surface to infect other cells in the body.
Nearly 20 percent of South Africans are infected with the HIV virus.
Now comes Robert Gallo, codiscoverer of the HIV virus and director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, with a glimmer of hope.
Nevertheless, the physician was correct to conclude that, if Mlodinow had the HIV virus, he had a pretty small chance of living much longer.
But he insisted that Americans, especially young people, must not die because they were deprived of explicit information about how the HIV virus was transmitted.
After years of shameful denial of any link between the HIV virus and AIDS, some 60% of the 5.7m infected are at last receiving antiretrovirals.
They used a modified version of the HIV virus to transfer a gene for neprilysin to neurons of genetically modified mice which produced human beta-amyloid.
The hope was that exposure to the genes would prompt an immune response in the body so that cells containing HIV virus would be recognised and destroyed.
Some people do make antibodies that neutralise a lot of HIV virus, bit it is not of use to them as they produce it way too late.
Twenty years after the global outbreak of AIDS, no one has developed an effective vaccine against the HIV virus, a far more cunning foe than polio, smallpox or measles.
The team's approach, which IAVI Vice President Wayne Koff calls very promising, makes use of a three-step process to teach the immune system to keep the HIV virus in check.
She herself faces possible prosecution for expressing concern about a rumor that the police were planning to inject Anwar with the hiv virus to "prove" allegations of his homosexual dalliances.
More trials have to be done to determine if the Koronis drug can essentially take down the HIV virus, but at least one analyst believes it could be a game changer.
Most have one or more treatments on the market that act as HIV virus inhibitors to prevent the HIV virus from inserting the DNA genetic code necessary for replication into healthy cells.
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The biotechnology company got a taste of success when David Ho , a world-renowned AIDS researcher, used the ProteinChip to find a protein that may give some people resistance to the HIV virus.
One of the impetuses for removing Mbeki from office was that he denied that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus, claiming instead that AIDS is caused by poverty and the legacy of white oppression.
Why didn't BBC go to the scientists who advised the cardinal and the WHO and get the real truth - surely there have been electron microscope scans of this type of rubber that would prove definitively whether or not the pores are larger than or smaller than the HIV virus.
The medicines used to treat HIV are excellent at suppressing HIV-virus replication and preventing destruction of immune cells, but the medicines are unable to eradicate the dormant, or sleeping, copies in immune cells.
Merck said that 24 of 741 volunteers who got the vaccine became infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
Another 60 antivirals have begun clinical trials, aimed primarily at HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS, and hepatitis B and C.
The six medics were arrested in Benghazi in February 1999 and eventually convicted in a Libyan court of knowingly infecting 438 children with HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
Johnson's father, who co-owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, retired from the NBA in November 1991 after announcing he had HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. His wife, Cookie, was pregnant with E.
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