The discovery of the first AIDS vaccine was discovered 25 years ago. This vaccine is not healed the virus but prevent infection, although their effectiveness was not 100%. In the second analysis of this vaccine, which was made on 24 September this year in Thailand, confirmed that it is still less effective than was said.
The results of this analysis were: RV144 vaccine prevented only 31.2% of cases. The test was 125 people, but only 86 were able to serve because of that some people were injecting less than the doses needed (6) or who were injected when the number is not touched. These people were not all injected doses also participated in the ITT (intent to treat population). In this test the efficacy of the vaccine dropped to 26%.
This news has been very problematic because the information is still lacking to explain experment. Researchers have promised that by the end of this month they say. However, the explanations are not convincing at all. At Wall Street Journal there have been several complaints about the way to inform the population.
I picked this story because AIDS is a chronic disease that affects many people and there are currently only preventive that this vaccine is ineffective.
