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Italian AIDS vaccine to be tested in 2001

Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2000 / 14:00 Uhr

Venice - Researchers in Italy are to begin testing a recently developed vaccine for the HIV virus that causes AIDS in 2001, Italian media reported Wednesday.

The announcement was made by Barbara Ensoli, a top researcher at the National Institute of Health, during a conference on infectious diseases in Venice. Ensoli said year-long tests would be conducted in Milan and Rome on 100 voluntary patients, 60 of them HIV-positive and the rest negative.

The Italian tests concern a vaccine similar to the ones currently being developed in the United States. Their effectiveness, however, has so far divided experts. Some say the vaccines cannot protect people from the disease but may provide some help for HIV-positive persons. (la/dpa)