Posted on 01/19/2023 3:57:02 AM PST by fwdude
The only HIV vaccine in a late-stage trial has failed, researchers announced Wednesday, dealing a significant blow to the effort to control the global HIV epidemic and adding to a decadeslong roster of failed attempts.
Known as Mosaico, the trial was the product of a public-private partnership including the U.S. government and the pharmaceutical giant Janssen. It was run out of eight nations in Europe and the Americas, including the U.S., starting in 2019. Researchers enrolled nearly 3,900 men who have sex with men and transgender people, all deemed at substantial risk of HIV.
The leaders of the study decided to discontinue the mammoth research effort after an independent data and safety monitoring board reviewed the trial’s findings and saw no evidence the vaccine lowered participants’ rate of HIV acquisition.
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Mikovits is all over this
that HIV med crap is on all the cable channels all the time..
tell you that the takers will be below detectable levels.. hehe but they still got the hiv..
The blogger community would be saddened if they weren't so sick from the AIDS.
“Maybe we should stop all funding on diseases that aren’t approved by you.”
This is a strange reply. I don’t approve anything but I have an opinion and that’s what FR is for. I don’t think HIV warrants the funding it gets because the largest group of victims self-select themselves to get it. It’s closer therefore to the drug problem than to cancer research.
That’s my opinion and I think it’s a common one.
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