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Review
. 2007 Jun 30;334(7608):1346-8.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39240.416968.AD.

Quest for the AIDS vaccine

Alison Tonks  1
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Review

Quest for the AIDS vaccine

Alison Tonks. BMJ. .

Abstract

Researchers broadly agree that the best way to halt the AIDS epidemic is to develop a vaccine against HIV. But despite huge investment a vaccine is proving elusive, as Alison Tonks explains

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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Fig 1 Effect of different vaccine scenarios on new infections in adults and children living in low and middle income countries (adapted from Stover J10)
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Fig 2 Funding sources for research into HIV vaccine (adapted from AIDS vaccine blueprint 200612)
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