They claim that the HIV vaccine is closer to reality

The researchers announced that they had tested an experimental vaccine against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that protected the monkeys from infection.

"These results represent an important step" toward creating a vaccine, the director said. study, virologist Dan Barouch, in a statement in The Lancet.

However, he warned that there is no guarantee that the next tests will be positive. "We have to be careful," he told the AFP news agency. The results of the larger tests are expected in 2021 or 2022.

In the same sense, the famous Argentine expert of infectious diseases Pedro Cahn was expressed in dialogue with Clarín. "It's good news." He showed that he was protecting the monkeys but can not be extended to humans, we're on the right track but he's absolutely uncertain in the sense we should not encourage false expectations, "said the creator of the Huésped Foundation.It is the" fifth concept vaccine "against HIV tested in 35 years, according to Barouch.

The study was conducted among of 393 healthy, seronegative adults, between 18 and 50 years of age in East Africa, South Africa, Thailand and the United States, some of them received a placebo

. tests showed the safety of the vaccine combination, which included different types of HIV virus, with only five participants having adverse effects such as diarrhea or dizziness.This same vaccine protected two-thirds of the 72 rhesus macaques that researchers have tried after inoculation of the virus.

"This is surely not the definitive vaccine, but it can be a phenomenal breakthrough," said French Jean-Daniel Lelièvre of the Vaccine Research Institute. "In the best case", these investigations will produce a vaccine that can be administered in "about 10 years".

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), some 37 million people are living with HIV and 1.8 million people contract the disease each year. The disease has killed an estimated 35 million of the 80 million people infected since its first diagnosis in the 1980s.

Despite the progress of medicine in the prevention and treatment of the disease (PrEP, antiretrovirals, triterapies), the researchers insist on measures to be taken not to be infected: protection during bad, use of new syringes and sterilization of medical equipment, among others. (Clarin.com)