5 Years and Counting: 2002
Five years away from the date former President Bill Clinton set as a goal for finding an AIDS vaccine there are more candidate vaccine products in development than ever before. No one knows if any of the current experimental vaccines will work. No one even knows for sure what immune response a vaccine needs to elicit to prevent HIV disease. The only way to obtain answers is to ask tens of thousands of altruistic and courageous volunteers to participate in dozens of trials. The only way to obtain answers is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to fund these trials.
This year's report focuses on the importance of clinical research in advancing the science on AIDS vaccines. Chapters include:
* Clinical trials at the five-year mark: climbing heartbreak hill
* Community call to action
* Vaccines on a global scale
* U.S. government
* Vaccines as intellectual property
* New roles for state governments in the U.S.
5 Years Report, Online Version in PDF