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diskowmoskow t1_iylrdja wrote

Reply to comment by redrightreturning in Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study by tonymmorley

How these studies conducted for effectiveness for acquiring the virus? Trial subjects are already in high risk groups (sex workers / HIV+ partners)? I would like to be part of these studies but in anycase I wouldn’t do any unprotected sex (apart from accidents during protected sex).

I am really happy for advancements in HIV studies. PrEP already changing lifes of many but battle of supplying of these preventions (as well as medicines) seem still trivial for big part of the world.

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redrightreturning t1_iymengu wrote

They weren’t studying efficacy in that way in my case. I’m guessing it would be really hard to study high-risk people over a long time. And really expensive to follow people for 20, 30, 40’years.

In the study I was in they drew blood to test for the presence of antibodies to HIV.

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