The Lancet, Volume 357, Issue 9251 , Pages 223 - 224, 20 January
2001 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)03601-1Cite or Link Using DOI
What can be achieved with an HIV vaccine? With HIV spreading
throughout the world at an alarming rate, the need for a
preventive vaccine is more urgent than ever before. All attempts
thus far to show efficacy of a vaccine in animals have not
indicated any clear-cut correlate of protection; in most
laboratory animals, prevention of infection was not recorded. 1
Is prevention of infection achievable or even feasible by the
use of HIV vaccines? Although some researchers speak about
sterilising immunity-ie, the absence of any infection of a h ...
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