Lack of uptake threatens promise of HIV vaccines

syringehand.jpgBy Elie Dolgin

The news out of Thailand last year that an experimental vaccine reduced the risk of contracting HIV by as much as a third reinvigorated hopes that a vaccine against the elusive virus was possible. But new research showing that large swaths of the public wouldn’t bother getting immunized against HIV, were such a vaccine available, calls into question the effectiveness of the approach in controlling the AIDS epidemic. (Click here to continue reading)

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