HIV Vaccine is being develop in Canada

Canadian scientists are beaming as the country's first attempt at an HIV vaccine moves out of the lab and into early clinical trials. But it will be years before they know if the vaccine will be effective.

Scientists at the University of Western Ontario have brought their HIV vaccine to the point where the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it can go forward with clinical trials.

The drug, which is in the earliest phases of clinical trials, is being tested on 40 HIV positive volunteers to make sure it is safe for use in humans, said researcher Dr. Chil-Yong Kang. It's already been tested extensively in animals.

"To have this approval from U.S. FDA to test this vaccine in humans, this is a very important stage," the doctor said.

If it passes this stage, the vaccine will go into more advanced trials that will seek to determine if it's effective. The idea is, like most vaccines, to prevent people from contracting the disease, rather than treating them after the fact. An advanced clinical trial will require thousands of people to receive the vaccine, but remains a long ways off.

"Phase three is something we do not know, and God only knows, so we'll see if this is efficacious," Kang said.

That is a big question. More than a dozen vaccines have gotten to early clinical trials after showing tremendous promise in animals, only to be ineffective in humans, said Dr. Myron Cohen, a North Carolina researcher uninvolved with the clinical trial.

"At the end of the day, we're trying to make a vaccine for humans, not animals," he said.

And while the research that led to the vaccine was done in Canada, it'll be a multinational effort to bring it to market. A Korean drug company is funding the trials and American facilities are producing the vaccine, because Canada doesn't have the facilities to support this sort of innovation, said Amit Chakma, president of the university.

This is the first time a Canadian HIV vaccine has advanced to clinical trials.

"The sad story of our country is we have many, many successes like this, but for us to take it to the next level, the innovation system in this country is just not adequate," Chakma said.

It'll be at least four years before anyone can say conclusively that the vaccine works. But many are holding out hope.

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[WulfBand]

How can you create a vaccine for a virus that has NEVER been isolated ?

This is NOT the 1st time a vaccine has been made. The Salk Institute tried to make

a vaccine and it went to trials and KILLED everyone that took it. But your NOT gonna hear about that because they plan on doing the same thing with this vaccine. I'm NOT bullshitting because a good friend of mine was killed via the Salk HIV vaccine.

[eachtem]

Big Pharma

[ctrlallterrors]

@annie4664 You tell others to RESEARCH whilst condemning those researching vaccines. You are a pathetic waste of valuable oxygen. You aren't dealing with a child here, give me your best shot with your outrageously low iq.

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@annie4664 You are a disgrace to the human race bitch. I suggest you do us all a huge favour and slit those eager wrists of yours. Probably someone has already helped you along..

[TheHIVNegative]

Fagcination is proven cure. Has anyone tried it ?

[annie46664]

@YooTubeBattleLeague~ You dear one, are SO out-of-line, but never mind, as I too was once sucked-in to their calculated culling & depopulation $CAM of note, so you are most definitely forgiven. It takes loads of time & research to discover the REAL TRUTH, and whenever that happens ~ later or sooner depending on the individual (I was one of the latest ~ about 10yrs ago, having been on the WRONG SIDE of the fence where you currently are) be prepared to experience ANGER like you have NEVER before!

[YooTubeBattleLeague]

@annie46664

Smh, Thats Why Their are given Trials First.

You obviously don't have HIV & Obviously dont Know Anyone close who does.

Stop Being A Hater

[YooTubeBattleLeague]

@annie46664

LoL, Your Such A Troll.

Try telling that to people living with hiv/aids.

LoL,

[annie46664]

THANK YOU 'peoplestandup' for uploading this. It gives TRUTHERS the opportunity to advise their naive & innocent victims, & hopefully, they note this BEFORE it is too late. The same ba$tards caused chronic illness in 100s of gay males in NYC when they offered some vaccines many years ago. I bet that everyone that received those died.

It is all too SHOCKING & DISGRACEFUL for words & Bill Gates now joins all the others with so much blood on their hands. He ought to be ashamed of himself.

Durban

[annie46664]

BYE-BYE gay males and Blacks stupid enough to touch this LETHAL vaccine. I urge everyone to perform their own research & discover the real TRUTH. HIV is HARMLESS & cannot be transmitted by sex, blood ~ NO MEANS WHATSOEVER!

HIV, like 4000+ other RETROVIRUSES has NEVER caused a single disease ever! Those who believe otherwise have swallowed the LIE$ behind this intentional money-making, genocidal $CAM!

See the TRUTH at: RethinkingAIDS. com & listen to podcasts at: HowPositiveAreYou. com

SA