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Why inventing a vaccine for AIDS is tougher than for COVID

10:33am January 26, 2023

by Susan Brink

The 4-decades long effort to create an AIDS vaccine suffered a blow with news that a vaccine in a late stage trial was discontinued because results showed it to be ineffective. What are the obstacles?

Dr. Jesse Clark is an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles. The COVID pandemic "has spurred people to try to end the HIV epidemic again," he says.

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How COVID vaccines have boosted the development of an HIV vaccine

3:10pm May 12, 2022

by Michaeleen Doucleff

During the pandemic scientists launched a vaccine in record-breaking time. Their successful use of mRNA technology could lead to progress in the decades-long effort for an HIV inoculation.

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