HIV boffins prep another HIV vaccine.

<http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/03/04/2003403939>:

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A promising new vaccine that employs a two-punch strategy to combat
the HIV virus received preliminary laboratory recognition and is ready
for further development before it can be used on humans, a joint
project between Academia Sinica and the US' Scripps Research Institute
said yesterday.

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Past attempts to combat HIV -- the virus responsible for AIDS -- by
increasing patient immunity have failed clinically, Wong said, but the
new vaccine tackles the problem in a different way with synthetic
chemicals called "glycodendrons."

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I like the way the failure of the last HIV vaccine hopeful is played
down.  As we know, those who were given it are now MORE likely to
contract HIV than those who weren't.