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AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful
ifchairscouldtalk writes "A Phase III 'RV 144' study in Thailand succeeded in reducing HIV infection rate in trial with 31.2% effectiveness. The study was conducted by the Thailand Ministry of Public Health and used strains of HIV common in Thailand. It is not clear whether the vaccine, which combines AIDSVAX with Aventis Pasteur ALVAC-HIV canarypox vector, known as 'vCP1521,' would work against other strains in the United States, Africa or elsewhere. Strangely, the vaccine had no effect on levels of HIV in the blood of those who did become infected, providing 'one of the most important and intriguing findings' of the trial, according to Dr Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is one of the trial's sponsors."
You're either a stickler or a natural-born pedant.
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When was the last time you heard of a study where the resutls weren't statistically significant. At this point, I ask whether the property of statistical significance is itself statistically significant.
May the Maths Be with you!
all then there is all this talk of "it's not a gay disease", yes it is, unprotected homosexual ass sex more than anything else is largely responsible for bringing the disease into the population and even the rise in HIV infections in women is mostly from men who also do gay sex
The truth: AIDS, the gay disease, spread by homosexual anal sex.