HIV Vaccine

Canadian scientists get green light for trials on groundbreaking HIV vaccine

A potential HIV vaccine is under review by the FDA (United States Food and Drug Administration). The team led by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang, a virologist at the University of Western have been working on the vaccine since 1987 and are very excited.

After they get the go ahead they will be able to begin testing on humans because so far, in the lab, the vaccine have had no negative effects on rats and monkeys.

A vaccine like this could save millions of lives with 2.3-2.8 million people becoming infected every year. Hundreds in Canada alone. Between Nov. 1, 1985 and Dec. 31, 2009, there were 69,844 positive HIV tests reported in Canada.