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Forty years on: how close is an HIV vaccine?
Author(s) -
Greener Mark
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1919
Subject(s) - medicine , optimism , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , hiv vaccine , clinical trial , virology , immunology , vaccine trial , social psychology , psychology
Forty years has passed since the first cases of an illness subsequently identified as AIDS were reported, yet despite extensive research and many clinical trials, an HIV vaccine is still not available. However, there is now renewed optimism that a vaccine with broad activity against several HIV variants is possible.