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AIDS vaccine goes to final stage of testing

Twenty years after HIV geneticist Bette Korber first began tackling HIV, her hard work—some would say “obsession”—may be finally paying off as she and her team gear up for the first round of human trials of an HIV vaccine.

Early tests showed powerful immune responses in animals and raised hopes around the world of finally achieving a scientific breakthrough in the AIDS health crisis.

The media is confused about this - some people are reporting it as an AIDS vaccine, others as an HIV vaccine. Even Bette Korber’s lab confuses it with the headline disagreeing with the story in their press release. It’s been a couple of decades now - we should have figured out which is which when writing about cures.

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