South Africa to Hold Mass-Scale HIV Vaccine Trial
February 9th, 2007Oh sure.
Via: AFP:
The first mass trial of an HIV vaccine which has yielded promising results in smaller tests in the United States and elsewhere is to be launched in AIDS-hit South Africa, it was announced.
The South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative said the programme, baptised Phambili or “Going Forward” in the Xhosa language, will be conducted jointly with the HIV Vaccine Trials Network of the US National Institutes of Health.
“Three thousand participants will be recruited from four South African provinces — Gauteng, North West, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal,” it said in a statement.
The trial sites include the township of Soweto outside Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
The “test of concept” vaccine, developed by US firm Merck, has been tried on more than 1,800 people across the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean and Australia.
The global audacity of Merck has me rolling with laughter!
“A mandatory vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease could be a tough sell in the Lone Star State and other conservative strongholds, where schools preach abstinence and parents’ rights are sacrosanct.
But Merck has doubled its spending on lobbyists in Texas this year, to between $150,000 and $250,000, as lawmakers consider the vaccine bill for girls entering the sixth grade.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,248781,00.html
If you want to learn a little about the politics of HIV and AIDS, I encourage you to read “Inventing the AIDS Virus”. http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FInventing-AIDS-Virus-Peter-Duesberg%2Fdp%2F0895263998%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1171027701%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&tag=cryptogoncom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 The story told in this book blew my mind. You can get a good overview by reading the amazon.com reviews, including the negative ones that attack Duesberg.
HIV is probably one of the most successful pharmaceutical marketing programs developed.
See also http://www.rethinkaids.com/ and http://www.virusmyth.net/
I’m 90% sure I’m right about the trendy, new HPV vaccine being the first component of a forthcoming stealth mass sterilization campaign:
1. http://www.richmondsunlight.com/bill/2007/hb2035/
2. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+amd+HB2035AHR
3. And just who proposed the amendment? One R.G. Marshall, the delegate representing the interests those living in Prince William and Loudoun Counties, Virginia (On Loudon County: “In August 2006, a survey concluded that Loudoun County has the highest median income in the country at just over $98,000….” wikipedia.org)
http://www.richmondsunlight.com/legislator/rgmarshall/