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October 2008
Up one levelAfrica: New HIV Vaccine Trials Raise Hopes
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt (Inter Press Service) 20 October 2008: After two HIV vaccine trials were halted for safety reasons last year, a new trial is set to commence within the next few months in South Africa and the United States. Scientists will test a new vaccine formula produced in South Africa. It will be the first time a HIV vaccine manufactured in a developing country will be trialed in the developed world.
Do not cut funding for AIDS vaccine quest, activist urges
By Tamar Kahn, Science and Health Editor (Business Day) 16 October 2008: Funding for the quest to find an AIDS vaccine should continue even as the global economy slows and spending is constrained by the international financial crisis, the head of the nonprofit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative said yesterday.
HIV testing on primates sparks debate
By Claire Keeton (The Times - South Africa) 15 October 2008: ARE HIV scientists monkeying around when they test AIDS vaccines on macaque monkeys?