More than 20 years have gone by since scientists first started to conduct research on HIV, and yet there is no vaccine against it. HIV affects some 39 million people worldwide, according to data from the World Health Organization.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dr. David Baltimore said that there is little hope among scientists that an effective vaccine will be developed.
Over the course of many years, HIV has found ways to evolve and protect itself from the human immune system, so the big question is, will scientists be ever able to overcome nature and the challenges they have so far encountered?
Although little or no success up-to-date may be discouraging and understandable, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist and President of the AAAS believes that the scientific community needs to do better if mankind does not want to find itself with a worldwide epidemic and no response to it.
One answer to the problem might be found in gene and stem cell therapy, but these techniques are still in their early stages of development. The idea is to find ways to genetically boost the immune system against HIV.
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Makes sense since the genetic material in the AIDS virus is RNA.
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