Is the vaccine development suffering because we are focussing more on treatment drugs?
Both improved treatment therapies and new prevention technologies are critical if we are going to defeat the AIDS pandemic. New medicines and vaccines should be crucial components of the global response to AIDS, as should scaling up current prevention and treatment programs and improving access. Drug treatment for AIDS is life-long and can be expensive, difficult to manage, and becomes ineffective over time as the ever-evolving viruses become resistant. Some countries are spending a substantial and increasing proportion of their AIDS resources on expensive second-line therapy for patients who no longer respond to first-line methods. So, what is the solution? An AIDS vaccine would be one of the most important public health tools of our times, which could help to reduce the number of people requiring AIDS treatment in the future and thus ensure that governments and communities can afford to pay for those who need treatment. IAVI estimates that even a partially effective vaccine could sla
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