The scientists made several breakthroughs to fight AIDS. Scientists develop new vaccines that are used to protect monkeys from infection with a virus similar to HIV.
The discovery of the University of Utah School of Medicine found that rhesus monkeys are likely to receive a new vaccine has a smaller percentage of 80 to 83 percent infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), the virus is very closely related to HIV, when exposed to it.
The new vaccine is intended to trigger the immune system of monkeys to fight the virus. How to develop an HIV vaccine in humans is to study the effects of SIV vaccines in monkeys.
This very important step towards a vaccine for HIV, an HIV researcher named Adam Spivak said “This study suggests that the immune system can be prepared to respond to and partially control viral infections that mimic HIV-1 transmission in humans,” as reported by the Times of India, on Monday (01/09/2012).
Journal Nature in the study initially stated, there are 40 monkeys given injections with the experimental vaccine and placebo vaccine, then given a booster shot (additional doses of vaccine needed periodically to enhance the immune system) for six months. The results of such research to those who are given the experimental vaccine had a lower amount of virus in their blood than those given a placebo.