Promising Norwegian HIV vaccine Tested

mkeke writes "The Norway Post is reporting: "A new Norwegian vaccine against HIV has attracted interest abroad, and is now being tested on 40 Norwegian HIV patients. The vaccine apparently helps to repair the patients' immune system, thus preventing the development of aids."
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[witte]

Promising Norwegian HIV vaccine tested

A new Norwegian vaccine against HIV has attracted interest abroad, and is now being tested on 40 Norwegian HIV patients.

-What we have seen so far, is that around 90 per cent of the patients have developed a new type of immunity which they did not have before joining the test project, says head of the project, Dag Kvale, Medical Director of the Ullevaal University Hospital in Oslo to TV2.

The vaccine, which has been developed by the Skien based company Bionor Immuno, apparently helps to repair the patients' immune system, thus preventing the development of aids, TV2 reports.

The patients will not be cured, but the new vaccine will possibly enable them to live with the virus without becoming sick with aids.

In September, representatives from the US National Health Institute will arrive in Norway to discuss the possibility for testing the vaccine on several thousand US HIV patients.

Wording

[cam_macleod]

Not to troll or complain, but isn't that technically a treatment, not a vaccine? Correct me if I'm wrong...

Re:Wording

[73939133]

A vaccine is something that stimulates the immune system with antigens. Most vaccines are preventive, but this one happens to be a therapeutic vaccine--you give it after the disease has already started. There are a few other examples of therapeutic vaccines.

Re:Thank god it's Norway

[TripleA]

It's a reference to Swedish minister Bjorn Rosengren on a business trip to Norway 1999-09-23 having said (roughly translated) "Norway really is the last Soviet state".

And no, Norway has never been part of the Soviet Union.

Re:Vaccine

[KnightNavro]

It seems that finding an image [cmsp.com] of the HIV virus wasn't all that difficult.