features - issue 82
we have FAILED prevention
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did not make men more likely to acquire or pass on HIV.

Vaccines
The holy grail of AIDS prevention remains a vaccine. The first Phase III HIV vaccine trials are currently underway in North America, Europe and Thailand (see page 40). 2010 is a reasonable estimate for the arrival of a vaccine. But waiting till then isn't soon enough, argued Helene Gayle, concluding: "The world has the capacity to dramatically alter the course of this epidemic with what we know works now."


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