Plans for large-scale AIDS vaccine trial dropped

Posted on July 22, 2008
Filed Under Gay News Blog

Plans for a large-scale trial of a potential AIDS vaccine are being dropped in favor of a smaller, more focused study, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday.

The trial of the vaccine, developed by the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, had been planned to include 2,400 men in the United States in a study called PAVE 100.

However, the agency said that it decided that the vaccine did not warrant a trial of this size and scope. Instead NIAID said it will plan a smaller, more focused clinical trial designed to see whether the product has a significant effect on the amount of virus in a person’s blood.

If an effect is found, then additional studies, or an expansion of the study could be carried out.

Plans for large-scale AIDS vaccine trial dropped