"Ren Stimpy" <news4read@yahoo.com> wrote in message

It is a common ploy. Funding monies must be running short.

"Until now, attempts have failed to stimulate antibodies against HIV"

One second you are saying that antibodies are a sure sign of infection and
the next you are saying they are the bodies form of defence.

You 'AIDS' fanatics are quite insane. You have turned science and simple
logic upside down and created the most fantastic and convoluted myth in
human history.

"Ren Stimpy" <news4read@yahoo.com> wrote in message

There are about forty different vaccines on a series of concepts in
human trials going on in the world.  There are two trials at the
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg, where I
live, and I am involved in one of these.

Do you know that it takes nine months or more just to be finally
accepted into an AIDS vaccine trial?  There is a long process of
education and elimination and health tests before entry.  Each stage
is marked with "exams" to ensure that the volunteers know and
understand what they are doing.  This is very important in third
world trials where a small reimbursement is made for travelling and
other out-of-pocket expenses.

The two US$2 I receive just covers the petrol (gas) from my
relatively distant area to the hospital in a poor township, but for
many who will walk to the session the US$2 will feed their family
for a day or two.  Once in the trial the reimbursement goes up to
US$5 which will provide an unemployed person with just enough income
on which to eke out a week's existence for the family.

However, the overriding goal of the volunteers is probably still the
desire to serve humanity.  When my group went through the process
the volunteers who landed up on the programme included a father
whose son had died of AIDS, the twin sister of a woman who had died
of AIDS, myself and a young man whose sister was HIV positive and in
medication trials.  People withdrew from the programme because they
wished to become pregnant, or because they didn't wish to comply
with one or other of the requirements.  I, as a platelet donor
donating every three weeks, must understand that it is *either* the
vaccine programme *or* the platelet donation.  They are mutually
exclusive for an estimated two years.  (More if the programme is one
where HIV antibodies are produced and they don't go away within the
two years - forever (or until the blood bank is forced to introduce
viral load testing when the general population starts being
vaccinated against HIV should such a time arise) if the antibodies
remain in the blood for ever).

I really do hope that more than one effective HIV vaccine is
developed soon, put through the proper trials and introduced, free
of charge to the poor, to the general public.  But I must be honest.
I think that few third world countries will be willing to buy the
vaccines which are likely to be expensive, and that ethical human
trials (and who would want them to be anything else) are so
laborious that the vaccine is not a short term viable option.

Moira, the Faerie Godmother