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  • The timeline of HIV/AIDS discovery to treatment to "cure" is fascinating to me

    I distinctly remember Reagan cabinet members openly joking about all the people dying from it in WhiteHouse press briefing (basically Trump before Trump prototypes)

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_HIV/AIDS

    Now if they could just do this for me-cfs/long-covid and related auto-immune diseases (there are over eighty) without the 50 year timeline please

    by ck2
  • OK this sounds fantastic, but is it going to be another case of an expert dropping in on this thread and going "Ah, 100s of these come out every month. It's promising but nowhere near human trials yet."
    by short_sells_poo
  • Tested on rhesus macaques. Worked well for 44% of them.

    It's a positive step, but still a fair way off for humans.

    by AndrewDucker
  • I have to admit that given how many times we have been here, I struggle with being excited about any news about a HIV vaccine until we see results from humans. Just way too many times of hope.

    That being said, I don't understand enough to parse this very buzzword heavy release. Is this fundamentally different than the every 6 month vaccine we have now and is a more traditional vaccine or is it just continuing on that trend?

    by nerdjon
  • Phase I trials happening now. Godspeed to them. It’s where most HIV vaccines die
    by khalic
  • The actual paper - never trust press releases from authors' institutions: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10837-5

    Peer review files: https://media.springernature.com/original/springer-static/es...

    Independent article covering it: https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/hiv-vaccine-can...

    by croemer
  • While HIV vaccine research is an exciting field, it's worth pointing out that halting HIV transmission is, practically speaking, a solved problem with oral and injectable reverse transcriptase inhibitors. The ongoing loss of life and health due to HIV could be stopped if we cared enough to invest resources in wide-scale PrEP availability and public health education. Waiting for an HIV vaccine is the domain equivalent of hoping fusion power will solve our energy needs. Other solutions exist already; we just have to use them.
    by RGS1811
  • The most interesting point of the article for me is that this vaccine appears to be a series of shots which act as a curriculum for the immune system. Each one slightly different and targeting a different stage of B-cell development. I've never thought of vaccine series working like that, so it was a new and impressive idea.
    by iandanforth

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