When will we have an effective therapeutic vaccine for hiv? President Clinton said 2007, but?

Question

2007 is here and nothing. I recently read that scientists have found hiv's achilles heel, the crucial moment when it starts to bind with a healthy cell, it starts as a cautious handshake then a full on bear hug..they want to strike at the cautious handshake part. Then I read about using stem cells to ward off hiv. I hear all these different techniques and they say "this is it", but I never find someone saying with absolute certainty one can live a full life with hiv, if what they found is "it" then why can't they say that. Basically, I'm only asking if anyone has any idea when a vaccine or any other technique to keep hiv under control for life will be available? thank you.

Answer 1

I'm not a scientist, so I really don't know. I can guarantee, however that it won't be in 2007. Since clinton said it, you can rest assured its not true. Anything coming from someone who was disbarred for unethical practices and held in contempt of court for lying twice is total BS.

Answer 2

For starters, the scientists who make these new discoveries never say "this is it". They might say "this could be very useful for coming up with effective therapies", and the media turn that into "this is it".

There are vaccine trials running currently, but the latest I had heard, they weren't doing so well. As for new, better therapies - we have several points of interest, and I think the next twenty years will yield some decent treatments at last. One of the reasons for the long time scale, is the length of time drug trials take.

Check out www.htvn.org

Answer 3

Clinton said a lot of things that he never followed through on. Read below.


Very interesting....makes one wonder why anyone would have voted for him...but they did!




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Subject:Date:Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:47 AMBill Clinton registers for the draft on September 8, 1964, accepting
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> all contractual conditions of registering for the draft.
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> Selective Service Number 326 46 228.
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> Bill Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964.
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> Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968.
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> Bill Clinton ordered to report for induction on July 28, 1969.
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> Bill Clinton refuses to report and is not inducted into the military.
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> Bill Clinton reclassified 1-D after enlisting in the United States Army
> Reserves on August 07, 1969, under authority of Col. E. Holmes.
> Clinton signs enlistment papers and takes oath of enlistment.
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> Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at the University of
> Arkansas ROTC, September 1969.
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> Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969, as enlistment with
> Army Reserves is revoked by Colonel E... Holmes and Clinton now AWOL
> and subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2)(a) registrant who has
> failed to report...remain liable for induction.'
>
> Bill Clinton's birth date lottery number is 311, drawn December 1,
> 1969, but anyone who has already been ordered to report for induction is
> INELIGIBLE!
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> Bill Clinton runs for Congress (1974) , while a fugitive from justice
> under Public Law 90-40.
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> Bill Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General (1976), while a
> fugitive from justice.
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> Bill Clinton receives pardon on January 21,1977, from President Carter.
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> Bill Clinton FIRST PARDONED FEDERAL FELON ever to serve as President of
> the United States.
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> All these facts come from Freedom of Information requests, public laws,
> and various books that have been published, and have not been refuted
> by Clinton.
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> After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, President Clinton promised
> that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
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> After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military
> personnel Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down
> and punished.
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> After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19
> and injured 200 U.S. military personnel; Clinto n promised that those
> responsible would be hunted down and punished.
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> After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224
> and injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible would be
> hunted down and punished.
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> After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39
> U.S. sailors; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted
> down and punished.
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> Maybe if Clinton had kept those promises, an estimated 3,000 people in
> New York and Washington, DC that are now dead would be alive today.
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> AN INTERESTING QUESTION:
> This question was raised on a Philly radio call-in show. Without
> casting stones, it is a legitimate question.
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> There are two men, both extremely wealthy. One develops relatively
> cheap software and gives billions of dollars to charity.
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> The other sponsors terrorism. That being the case, why was it that the
> Clinton Admi nistration spent more money chasing down Bill Gates over
> the eight years in office, than Osama bin Laden?
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> THINK ABOUT IT!
> It is a strange turn of events. Hillary gets $8 Million for her forth
> coming memoir. Bill gets about $12 Million for his memoir. This from two
> people who spent 8 years being unable to recall
> anything about past events while under oath.
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> Sincerely,
> Cdr. Hamilton McWhorter USN (ret)
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> P.S. Please forward this to as many people as you can! We don't want
> this woman to even think of running for President.
>
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>
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Anyway to answer your question, I don't think there will be an HIV vaccination anytime soon so keep your pants on!