Growing doubts about HIV vaccine
Doubts have been raised about the reliability of a trial suggesting success for a vaccine against HIV. In the large-scale trial in Thailand, a combination of vaccines seemed to give volunteers a protective effect of 31%. The US military and Thai government, who co-sponsored the trial, said the effect was not caused by random chance but was statistically significant. Allegedly, if one more person had been infected in the trial, the result would not have been statistically significant.
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