BANGKOK: Health experts on Thursday called for trials of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine under development in Thailand to be speeded up following recent setbacks in other efforts to end the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic.
Initial test results of the RV144 vaccine—jointly developed by United States military researchers and the Thai health ministry—in 2009 found a 31-percent protection rate among 16,000 Thai volunteers.
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