It is a vaccine. Search the page for "subunit."
you put this in a healthy person and you’ve just given them HIV.
No. The peptide strings by themselves are not infectious.
Melbourne also has a very interesting and very small publicly listed biotech called Benitec Australia Ltd (ASX BLT) see http://www.benitec.com who are working with Dr John Rossi at the City of Hope Hospital in California. They are running a patient HIV trial at the hospital using gene silencing technology. This is a new frontier in medicine and involves a process that can “turn off” “bad” cells in the body (my rough laymans translation of the process which also involves removing the patients blood to infuse it and return it to the patient). Dr Rossi is reporting postive results from these very early trials in various papers that have and are being presented in the USA. The technology has applications in a wide variety of illnesses.