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Vaccine for Aids
Jul 8 2002 By The Evening Chronicle
A potential Aids vaccine could be ready within five years, the International Aids Conference in Barcelona was due to hear today.
The American company VaxGen is to tell the conference organised by the United Nations agency UNAids that its vaccine could be in use in five years rather than the 10 years previously thought, the BBC reported.
The Vaxgen vaccine is one of only eight being tested on humans to a "significant degree" and the only one in an end-stage trial. Results from the trial should be ready early next year. To be granted a licence show the vaccine must prove effective in at least a third of patients.
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