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Promising Norwegian HIV vaccine Tested

Posted by Hemos on from the see-how-it-works dept.

mkeke writes "The Norway Post is reporting: "A new Norwegian vaccine against HIV has attracted interest abroad, and is now being tested on 40 Norwegian HIV patients. The vaccine apparently helps to repair the patients' immune system, thus preventing the development of aids."
You can read it all here"

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  1. Wording by cam_macleod · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not to troll or complain, but isn't that technically a treatment, not a vaccine? Correct me if I'm wrong...

    1. Re:Wording by 73939133 · · Score: 4, Informative

      A vaccine is something that stimulates the immune system with antigens. Most vaccines are preventive, but this one happens to be a therapeutic vaccine--you give it after the disease has already started. There are a few other examples of therapeutic vaccines.