HIV is a disease which requires life long treatment as if medicine stopped virus recurs and it can't be prevented as No Vaccine to prevent it. But with a large-scale clinical trial launching this fall and several others already underway, scientists say they are cautiously optimistic that they'll soon have a way to fight HIV long before a person is ever exposed. More than 37 million people around the world are living with HIV, and they spread it to about 5,000 others every day, Corey said.
There are also about 180,000 transmissions to newborns each year."This virus is unfortunately doing very well," he said Once Gallo and other scientists identified HIV as the cause of AIDS in 1984, it didn't take long for them to recognize the need for a way to inoculate people against the virus. Even back then, he said, "We were already planning for a vaccine."Vaccines prime the immune system for a…
