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VIRUS - Vaccines |
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Vaccines are drugs that enable the immune system recognize and defend
itself against micro - organisms. Vaccinations means taking of Vaccines to prevent possible occurrence of and infection. Vaccines would have been another safe way to get AIDS off the track but
it's development is being affected by the different range of virus subtypes as well as by
the wide variety of human populations who need different sort of vaccines, perhaps, due to differences in their genetic make-up and their routes of exposure to HIV. |
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The first human vaccine was developed and used in the USA in 1987, and
ever since smaller scale vaccinations had being carried out in other countries
such as Cuba, Uganda and Thailand).
However the first large scale
vaccination was staged in the USA with over 8,000(eight thousand) healthy volunteers in 1998.
Though Vaccines are not the ultimate ways of preventing AIDS but it is also
useful and can help for a while.
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| Dates of Vaccinations were gotten from UNAIDS
Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic June 2000. |
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SECTION OUTLINE |
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- Structure : How the HIV virus looks like
and how it's body is grouped
- Life cycle: Explains stages through which HIV
develops
- Subtypes : Various subtypes of HIV known
- Vaccines : General information on AIDS
vaccines
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Mark Wainberg asks Seth Berkley, President, International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative, about the critical search to find an effective
preventive vaccine against HIV.
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