Spaniard to test AIDS vaccine on human volunteers

Doctors first test in Spain an AIDS vaccine on human volunteers. As the scientists announced on Tuesday, the vaccine should not infected with the AIDS-HIV agents prevent, protect against this but that after infection, the immune deficiency disease outbreaks.

At 0.5 percent of HIV-infected patients never break off from AIDS, said one of the doctors. The scientists of the State Research Institute CSIC developed vaccine should this situation with other patients "reproduce". In January at the beginning of the test series 30 volunteers taking part which do not have HIV infection. 24 of them received the vaccine injected proteins from the HIV protein molecules are modeled after.

The doctors will examine whether the body of the test subjects antibodies. The remaining 6 volunteers given a placebo administered substance-free and serve as a comparison group. The researchers previously had the vaccine in mice and monkeys tested. The head of the medical teams, Mariano Esteban, stressed that it was excluded that the volunteers at the test with the AIDS pathogen HIV infected would.

The American Health Authority had recently announced a pill to test healthy people against infection with the AIDS pathogen HIV protect. According to the relevant U.S. Federal Institute (NIAID), the clinical trial is currently in the United States and other countries such as Brazil, Thailand, India and South Africa prepared. Volunteers will be tested by whether the so-called Präexpositionsprophylaxe already popular with the resources AIDS infection in high-risk groups such as homosexuals with careless Sexpraktiken, drug addicts and prostitutes can reduced.